Diskless with 12.x not anymore possible

[Daniel Feenberg]

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Roderick wrote:

>
> Is there someone booting diskless?

We boot a dozen FreeBSD systems diskless to 12.0.  I am no longer involved 
but I asked collegue Alex Aminoff who has done our recent upgrades. Here 
is his report:

   We have not had any trouble booting 12.0 diskless. What we did is take
   our 11.3 installation and upgraded it using freebsd-update . We had to
   do it carefully using the -b <basedir> flag.

   In out boot directory, we have:

   -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  372736 Dec 23 12:02 boot/loader_lua
   -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  488960 Dec 23 12:02 boot/loader_lua.efi
   -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    2402 Dec 23 12:02 boot/lua/loader.lua

Hope this is of some help. We do like booting diskless and want to thank 
whoever at FreeBSD keeps it an option for us.

>
> Since the introducction of the wonderfull, coll lua to the loader I
> get the error:
>
> ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: no such file or directory
>
> With 12.0 I managed once to boot using the pxeboot of 11.2, but that
> does not work anymore.
>
> Do someone boot diskless?
>
> I thank for any hint
> Rod.
>
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