Tom Cosgrove wrote: >>>> Heinrich Rebehn 25-Jun-07 13:57 >>> >> Tom Cosgrove wrote: >>> Sorry, one last thing: I find a dmesg from a (presumably unsuccessful) >>> boot via xl0. >>> >>> Could you post that, too? >>> >>> So far it looks like the xl0 boot is correctly getting the right MAC >>> address, so we need to find why it's not getting through to the NFS >>> code. >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Tom >> The dmesg that i sent was from a successful boot via sk0. To post an >> unsuccessful boot's dmesg , i would have to type everything from the >> screen. What exactly do you want to know? > > Do you not have a serial console on this box? > > I'd like to double-check the NIC lines and the lines around the point > it fails. It really should be printing out "PXE boot MAC address ...", > even on 4.1. > > Could you also post your exact kernel config file? > > And finally: it's worth trying this with GENERIC, too, particularly > from -current (i.e. a snapshot) since that should be able to do this > automatically. > I was not aware that GENERIC can also deal with nfsroot. In fact, it works perfect with -stable! The problem shows when i change GENERIC to include "root on nfs swap on nfs":
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [~/src/sys/arch/i386/conf] # diff DISKLESS GENERIC 42,43c42 < #config bsd swap generic < config bsd root on nfs swap on nfs --- > config bsd swap generic The dmesgs for both cases are attached (installed a serial console :-) ) --Heinrich [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of xl0-GENERIC-stable] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/octet-stream which had a name of xl0-DISKLESS-stable]
