diskless broken in 6.x ?

[Marco Molteni]

On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:14:14 -0700
Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:

> 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.

mmmh, I'll try installworld then.

thanks
marco
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