I have a number of diskless FreeBSD servers. Usually, they work
fine. But sometimes when I reboot one, I get weird messages on the
console like this:
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sat Jan 19 16:41:40 MST 2008)
pxe_open: server addr: 1.2.3.4
pxe_open: server path: /path/to/NFS/Root
pxe_open: gateway ip: 1.2.3.1
\
Insert disk labelled Loader.rc and press any key...
It isn't always "Loader.rc" though, it seems quasi-random. I've also
seen:
Insert disk labelled ELF and press any key...
Insert disk labelled boot.nfsroot.options="nfsv3,soft,intr,tcp" and
press any key...
(The latter being the first line of loader.conf.)
I think these incidents correspond to the following strange xferlog
entries from tftpd on the boot server:
Jul 30 20:15:03 xx tftpd[86096]: 1.2.3.11: read request for \.split:
File not found
Jul 30 20:15:03 xx tftpd[86098]: 1.2.3.11: read request for \.split:
File not found
Jul 30 20:15:03 xx tftpd[86100]: 1.2.3.11: read request for
\.gz.split: File not found
Jul 30 20:15:03 xx tftpd[86102]: 1.2.3.11: read request for \.gz: File
not found
Jul 30 20:15:03 xx tftpd[86104]: 1.2.3.11: read request for \: File
not found
Rebooting generally makes it go away, so it's not a *big* deal, but I
wouldn't want this to happen in the event of an unattended panic/
reboot or something. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this?
Thanks!
Jeff
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