Diskless Boot Problem

kevin stovall kevinstovall at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 20 22:41:31 PDT 2005


Thanks for responding and sorry it took me so long to respond. I am still 
having the same problem that I was. / is mounted through nfs. Do you know if 
the dhclient does the same as you described  in 6? Also, I think that they 
did away with mfs in version 6.

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From:  <i>Erik Norgaard &lt;norgaard at locolomo.org&gt;</i><br>To:  <i>kevin 
stovall &lt;kevinstovall at hotmail.com&gt;</i><br>CC:  
<i>freebsd-questions at freebsd.org</i><br>Subject:  <i>Re: Diskless Boot 
Problem</i><br>Date:  <i>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 11:10:37 +0200</i><br>&gt;kevin 
stovall wrote:<br>&gt;&gt;The root file system seems to mount correctly, but 
I am not sure <br>&gt;&gt;how to tell. The root file system is 
/home/diskless_ro which is set <br>&gt;&gt;up correctly for NFS. I don't 
have a memory file system set up, so <br>&gt;&gt;this is likely the 
problem.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;You will use either or, not both. A memory file 
system will ocupy <br>&gt;ram so if you don't have much it's not a good 
idea. Also, var and <br>&gt;tmp may be created as mfs if these are not 
mounted or toggled in <br>&gt;rc.conf. (see /etc/rc.d/var and /etc/rc.d/tmp) 
so you may run out of <br>&gt;ram.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;Check that you can mount 
the nfs root device. There are some <br>&gt;permission stuff to be aware of 
if you have multiple exports on the <br>&gt;same device.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;I 
tried once, a while ago to set up diskless systems, and wrote my <br>&gt;own 
guide to keep track of what I was doing, you can read it 
here:<br>&gt;<br>&gt;   www.daemonsecurity.com/pxe<br>&gt;<br>&gt;I didn't 
get it working, my problem was that the dhclient of 5.4 <br>&gt;would 
unconfigure the NIC before obtaining a new lease meaning that <br>&gt;any 
NFS mounted filesystems was lost and then it couldn't write the 
<br>&gt;lease file. This problem could posibly be solved by using mfs for 
<br>&gt;/var and / but I only have 112 MB ram, so I prefered to have it nfs 
<br>&gt;mounted.<br>&gt;<br>&gt;Cheers, Erik<br>&gt;<br>&gt;--<br>&gt;Ph: 
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