Re: classes and kernel_cookie was Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Jan-09 10:32:48 -0500, Daniel Feenberg wrote: >Daniel Braniss writes... >> I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root >> but it then reports locking problems: devd, syslogd, moused (and maybe Actually, that was me, not Daniel. >Are you mounting /var via nfs? Yes. I'm usin

classes and kernel_cookie was Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-10 Thread Daniel Braniss
... > I note that the response to your message from "danny" offers the ability > to pass arguments to the nfs mount command, but also seems to offer a fix > for the fact that "classes" are not supported under PXE: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/90368 > > I hope "danny"

Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-09 Thread Rick Macklem
> Daniel Braniss writes... > > > I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root > > but it then reports locking problems: devd, syslogd, moused (and > > maybe > > others) lock their PID file to protect against multiple instances. > > Unfortunately, these daemons all start before statd/lo

Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-09 Thread Daniel Feenberg
Daniel Braniss writes... I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root but it then reports locking problems: devd, syslogd, moused (and maybe others) lock their PID file to protect against multiple instances. Unfortunately, these daemons all start before statd/lockd and so the lockin

Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-02 Thread Daniel Braniss
> > --2iBwrppp/7QCDedR > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > [I'm not sure if -stable is the best list for this but anyway...] > > I'm trying to convert an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.0 into a diskless > clie

Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
[I'm not sure if -stable is the best list for this but anyway...] I'm trying to convert an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.0 into a diskless client (since its internal HDD is growing bad spots faster than I can repair them). I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root but it then report