Re: classes and kernel_cookie was Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-12 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2011-Jan-09 10:32:48 -0500, Daniel Feenberg feenb...@nber.org wrote: Daniel Braniss writes... I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root but it then reports locking problems: devd, syslogd, moused (and maybe Actually, that was me, not Daniel. Are you mounting /var via nfs?

classes and kernel_cookie was Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-10 Thread Daniel Braniss
... I note that the response to your message from danny offers the ability to pass arguments to the nfs mount command, but also seems to offer a fix for the fact that classes are not supported under PXE: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/90368 I hope danny will offer a

Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-09 Thread Daniel Feenberg
Daniel Braniss writes... I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root but it then reports locking problems: devd, syslogd, moused (and maybe others) lock their PID file to protect against multiple instances. Unfortunately, these daemons all start before statd/lockd and so the

Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-09 Thread Rick Macklem
Daniel Braniss writes... I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root but it then reports locking problems: devd, syslogd, moused (and maybe others) lock their PID file to protect against multiple instances. Unfortunately, these daemons all start before statd/lockd and so

Re: Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-02 Thread Daniel Braniss
--2iBwrppp/7QCDedR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [I'm not sure if -stable is the best list for this but anyway...] I'm trying to convert an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.0 into a diskless client (since

Specifying root mount options on diskless boot.

2011-01-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
[I'm not sure if -stable is the best list for this but anyway...] I'm trying to convert an old laptop running FreeBSD 8.0 into a diskless client (since its internal HDD is growing bad spots faster than I can repair them). I have it pxebooting nicely and running with an NFS root but it then