Benjamin Polidore [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a dedicated FreeBSD 5.1 server, and I am experimenting with a WinXP /
diskless-FreeBSD dual boot workstation.
I'm not running 5.1 myself, yet, but I'll drop in a few comments anyway.
I have followed the instructions in the handbook and I get to a point that
makes me think I have done somthing wrong with my diskless kernel.
The workstation boots with an etherboot floppy, finds the dhcp server and
downloads the kernel from NFS. It seems to contemplate loading the kernel for
about 5 seconds then reboots.
I have seen postings in the archives about recompiling the kernel with the
proper CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf.
I have tried this and it makes no difference.
You wouldn't expect it to, in general. This was probably working around
a compiler bug that I *think* was fixed by the last gcc update.
The only thing I have been considering is that I have a bunch of modules that
were compiled installed w/o CPUTYPE=p3, as they were imported with
clone_root.
Maybe, but I'm skeptical.
So the only solution I can think of is to recompile/install these modules with
the proper CPUTYPE, but I'm not sure how to have make installkernel put the
modules / kernel in /misc/diskless/boot instead of /boot?
If I recall correctly (which I might not; I still seem to be short of
caffeine this morning) this is normally done with a jail(8) environment.
I won't need to do this with userland, will I? This would make diskless
operation impossible for my situation.
Again, jail or chroot might be a good shortcut here. I think you're
right that it shouldn't be necessary, though.
Below is a more detailed breakdown of what I am trying to do and some pieces
of my config files.
TIA-
Ben Polidore
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--Hardware
My server:
Via C3 800
CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x678 Stepping = 8
Features=0x803035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX (from dmesg)
My workstation: Pentium III 933
--Configs
*dhcpd.conf:
option swap-path code 128 = string;
option swap-size code 129 = integer 32;
#snip
host inferior {
hardware ethernet 00:03:6d:00:18:40;
fixed-address 10.0.0.100;
next-server 10.0.0.1;
filename /misc/diskless/kernel;
option root-path 10.0.0.1:/misc/diskless;
option swap-path 10.0.0.1:/misc/diskless/netswap;
option swap-size 128000;
}
*kernel config for DISKLESS:
machine i386
#cpuI486_CPU
#cpuI586_CPU
cpu I686_CPU
ident DISKLESS
maxusers0
options INET#InterNETworking
options INET6 #IPv6 communications protocols
options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support
options UFS_ACL #Support for access control lists
options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories
options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device
options NFSCLIENT #Network Filesystem Client
options NFSSERVER #Network Filesystem Server
options NFS_ROOT#NFS usable as root device, requires
options BOOTP
options BOOTP_NFSROOT
options BOOTP_COMPAT
#that's all that seems pertinent
-I have diskless root at /misc/diskless:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]# ls /misc/diskless/
bin confkernel sbintmp
bootdev mnt stand usr
cdrom etc procswap.10.0.0.100 var
compat homerootsys
-I compiled DISKLESS kernel like so:
make buildkernel KERNCONF=DISKLESS CPUTYPE=p3
#i also had CPUTYPE=p3 in make.conf
___
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
