diskless broken in 6.x ?

[Brooks Davis]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to boot a diskless box (via PXE), both server and diskless
> run FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4. The diskless machine hangs after printing
> the date on the console. I added debug output to /etc/rc,
> /etc/initdiskless and finally /sbin/init. It seems to hang in init
> after calling multi_user().
> 
> A bit before the hang, rc.initdiskless does
> sysctl -n kern.bootp_cookie and it prints:
> sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.bootp_cookie'
> 
> Is this a known issue? I can upgrade to -current if needed.
> 
> PS in the process of setting up the diskless root I also updated
> clone_root to work with fbsd > 4.x, retaining 4.x compatibility,
> seems to work fine.

It works for me basicly the same way it has since 4.x.  I don't use the
clone_root procedure and use installworld/kernel with DESTDIR set.

-- Brooks

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