Trouble booting NFS root

lukem.freebsd at cse.unsw.edu.au lukem.freebsd at cse.unsw.edu.au
Thu Jun 1 18:10:10 PDT 2006


> make sure you have this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel diskless_root/etc/rc

> diskless_root/etc/rc:
> /bin/sh #which points your rc file to shell so that you are your own rc!

While that is a useful tip, the NFS trace shows that the kernel doesn't 
even try to read any files. The last thing that gets read by anything is 
/etc/fstab, however it seems most likely that fstab was read by the 
bootloader rather than the kernel proper.

-- 
Luke


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