Diskless Boot Problem

Erik Norgaard norgaard at locolomo.org
Wed Sep 14 01:00:24 PDT 2005


kevin stovall wrote:
> I am trying to set up diskless boot with FreeBSD 6.0 BETA2. I am using 
> PXE which is successful and the diskless box finds the kernel fine, but 
> it hangs right before it would normally give the login prompt. It 
> displays the date and then hangs. I am unable to SSH in from other 
> machine. It boots fine into single user mode. Has anyone experienced 
> this or have any ideas?

Does it correctly mount the root file system? What is your root file 
system? a memory file system downloaded with tftp or nfs mount?

I had the same problem (I recall it hanging just after displaying the 
date) recently on my disked laptop because /etc/ttys was corrupt after a 
crash. Also, I had no problems booting in single-user mode.

Cheers, Erik

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