Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
Rek Jed wrote: I also tried building it like that: # cd /usr/src/sys/boot # make LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT=NO This builds fine. I copied it to my jumpstart server and it booted from tftp after approx 2 min. pause and the NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60. Can anyone tell me whats the difference between -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES and LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES? OK, two things remain: Are you sure that it doesn't correctly fetch the kernel with tftp and then the kernel tries to mount a root device with nfs? If the kernel is compiled with the slightest mention of nfs as root device it will use nfs, no matter that you have specified otherwise in loader.conf. The generic kernel has NFS_ROOT and NFS_CLIENT, since your root device is not NFS then you can leave out both. I recall having problems leaving in NFS_CLIENT although NFS_ROOT was not included. Second, the loader is ignorant of which version of FreeBSD you use, it will just load whichever kernel you throw at it. I have a loader I used for 6.1, http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/jumpstart.tgz Hope this helps. If you find any errors or things that have changed since I worked with this, let me know and I will update the howto. Cheers, Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
Erik Norgaard wrote: Second, the loader is ignorant of which version of FreeBSD you use, it will just load whichever kernel you throw at it. I have a loader I used for 6.1, http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/jumpstart.tgz Sorry, wrong. This is not a pxeloader. Gosh it's long time since I did this, don't even know where my files are. Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
Rek Jed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly works. I'm using tftp to boot off the network in to scripted sysinstall. I compiled the boot loader with tftp support but every time I boot it will first try nfs, then timeout after around two minutes (it cannot find nfs) and finally boot from tftp. Is there any way that I can make it boot from tftp straight away rather than wait for nfs to timeout? Try unsetting boot.nfsroot.server and boot.nfsroot.path although I'm not sure that it will avoid the timeout in newer FreeBSD releases. -- Christian Laursen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
Erik Norgaard wrote: OK, two things remain: Are you sure that it doesn't correctly fetch the kernel with tftp and then the kernel tries to mount a root device with nfs? When I build the pxeloader with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES it will fetch the kernel from tftp just fine, but after the NFS gracefully times out. It will also fetch mount the root device from tftp ok. It's just a bit annoying that I have to wait 2 extra minutes every time I need to install a box (I do this quite often), and look for workarounds for something that should just work. But then, I'm a sysadmin not a developer so it might be easy for me to say. I cannot actually fix it myself. If the kernel is compiled with the slightest mention of nfs as root device it will use nfs, no matter that you have specified otherwise in loader.conf. The generic kernel has NFS_ROOT and NFS_CLIENT, since your root device is not NFS then you can leave out both. I recall having problems leaving in NFS_CLIENT although NFS_ROOT was not included. I don't bother compiling a kernel for this at the moment. I just copied the contents of /boot from a FreeBSD CD to the root of my tftp server. Then I copied the custom build loader files so that I can boot from tftp instead of nfs: boot0 boot1 boot2 loader.conf loader.rc mbr pxeboot Then I mount the stock mfsroot and copy my install.cfg over to script sysinstall. I've actually got a script that I can use to easily update install.cfg when needed. The idea behind all this is to keep it as simple to setup as possible so that me and my fellow network engineers at work can use this on their laptops without spending too much time on setting it up. This way if we need to install/re-install a box on a clients site we just rock up, run a few commands or a script to set the laptop in jumpstart mode (once the main thing has been setup it's just a matter of reconfiguring an interface and starting a few services), plug it in to the box, netboot and while the box is reinstalling we can have a chat with the client, see how things are going, look good and provide a better service. This also means that we always start with a machine that is in a know state. It's something that is almost impossible to achieve when installing by hand as everyone seems to do it differently. I'm happy to share my docs once I've ironed it all out and tested properly. Cheers, Jedrek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
I confirm it. Seems to be loader bug. I`ve tried to compile it without nfs support at all... but it didn`t help. I`ve been searching for solution for about a week and found nothing. Hey, I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly works. I'm using tftp to boot off the network in to scripted sysinstall. I compiled the boot loader with tftp support but every time I boot it will first try nfs, then timeout after around two minutes (it cannot find nfs) and finally boot from tftp. Is there any way that I can make it boot from tftp straight away rather than wait for nfs to timeout? This is how I build the boot loader: cd /usr/src/sys/boot sudo make clean sudo make LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES sudo cp i386/pxeldr/pxeboot /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/pxeboot.0 sudo cp i386/boot0/boot0 /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/ sudo cp i386/boot2/boot1 /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/ sudo cp i386/boot2/boot2 /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/ sudo cp i386/mbr/mbr /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/ This is my loader.conf: # loader.conf init_path=/stand/sysinstall rootfs_load=YES rootfs_name=/boot/mfsroot rootfs_type=mfs_root vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0c autoboot_delay=0 And loader.rc: #loader.rc echo hopping the kernel... include /boot/loader.4th start Many thanks, Jedrek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
Rek Jed wrote: Hey, I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly works. I'm using tftp to boot off the network in to scripted sysinstall. I compiled the boot loader with tftp support but every time I boot it will first try nfs, then timeout after around two minutes (it cannot find nfs) and finally boot from tftp. Is there any way that I can make it boot from tftp straight away rather than wait for nfs to timeout? This should Just Work, and I've had it work about half a year ago on 6.2. Which version are you compiling on? The tutorial I have handy[1] says to compile with: make -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES I'm not sure if it makes a difference. Anyhow, the boot loader source looks like it can't cope with both TFTP and NFS at the same time, so there might be a bug in there after all. Erik [1] http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
Zinevich Denis wrote: It does not work. I`ve tried. But as I found in forums and mailing lists it randomly helps sometimes. Please don't top-post. I have a comment in src/sys/boot/i386/loader/conf.c v1.26 (RELENG_7) saying: #if defined(LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT) defined(LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT) #error Cannot have both tftp and nfs support yet. #endif So at least the intent is that NFS and TFTP are mutually exclusive. Since the OP has both working at the same time, there's something wrong. Which version are you using, and which architecture? I'm not really able to help you debug further, so I suggest filing a PR if one doesn't exist already. Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
I tried with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT and LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT both enabled. Also I tried with nfs disabled and tftp enabled. All was made under 6.2 stable, i386 arch. Only once i`ve got it working without timeout, but I could not repeat this. I`ll be back to this question in about one or two month with 6.2 and amd64 arch, so may be I`ll discover something new. Zinevich Denis wrote: It does not work. I`ve tried. But as I found in forums and mailing lists it randomly helps sometimes. Please don't top-post. I have a comment in src/sys/boot/i386/loader/conf.c v1.26 (RELENG_7) saying: #if defined(LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT) defined(LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT) #error Cannot have both tftp and nfs support yet. #endif So at least the intent is that NFS and TFTP are mutually exclusive. Since the OP has both working at the same time, there's something wrong. Which version are you using, and which architecture? I'm not really able to help you debug further, so I suggest filing a PR if one doesn't exist already. Erik ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
Rek Jed wrote: Hey, I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly works. I'm using tftp to boot off the network in to scripted sysinstall. I compiled the boot loader with tftp support but every time I boot it will first try nfs, then timeout after around two minutes (it cannot find nfs) and finally boot from tftp. Is there any way that I can make it boot from tftp straight away rather than wait for nfs to timeout? This is how I build the boot loader: cd /usr/src/sys/boot sudo make clean sudo make LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES sudo cp i386/pxeldr/pxeboot /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/pxeboot.0 sudo cp i386/boot0/boot0 /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/ sudo cp i386/boot2/boot1 /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/ sudo cp i386/boot2/boot2 /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/ sudo cp i386/mbr/mbr /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/ Hi: I wrote the howto refered to in other reply, it's a while ago I played with this, but I have no reason to think that much has changed on the 6.x branch, I have just tried 7.x and build of the loader this way fails. As I understand the documentation, enabling TFTP disables NFS, they are exclusive. When building the loader make sure that your source tree is clean and /usr/obj is empty, or it won't work. I recall this puzzled me a long time until I found the trick. I don't think it is enough to do make clean. Second, I did # cd /usr/src/sys/boot # make -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES ok, as said, it's a while ago I played with this, they may have introduced support for the usual way of stating options. Cheers, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: +34.666334818 http://www.locolomo.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
Hi Erik, I wrote the howto refered to in other reply, it's a while ago I played with this, but I have no reason to think that much has changed on the 6.x branch, I have just tried 7.x and build of the loader this way fails. I tried building it on 7.0-PRERELEASE and it builds fine for me. Haven't tested if it works yet, but will do in a moment. When building the loader make sure that your source tree is clean and /usr/obj is empty, or it won't work. I recall this puzzled me a long time until I found the trick. I don't think it is enough to do make clean. Yes, I made sure that /usr/obj was empty. # cd /usr/src/sys/boot # make -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES Originally I was doing this on 6.2. I tried it again on a freshly installed 6.3-RELEASE just now. I made sure /usr/obj was empty and build pxeboot using the above method, then copied it over to my jumpstart server. Unfortunately this didn't work. It sat there for a bit, then trowed NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60 as usual and then sat there forever (it never fetched the kernel). I also tried building it like that: # cd /usr/src/sys/boot # make LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT=NO This builds fine. I copied it to my jumpstart server and it booted from tftp after approx 2 min. pause and the NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60. Can anyone tell me whats the difference between -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES and LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES? I've been playing with thinbsd (http://www.thinbsd.org/) a while back. It also boots from tftp without nfs and their boot loader works fine (boots straight away). Latest thinbsd is based on 5.4 so maybe it broke in 6.x? For a workaround I used pxeboot from thinbsd with my 6.3 jumpstart setup and it seems to work fine. However this is quite dirty. Cheers, Jedrek P.S Thanks for the howto Erik, I found it really helpful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
It does not work. I`ve tried. But as I found in forums and mailing lists it randomly helps sometimes. This should Just Work, and I've had it work about half a year ago on 6.2. Which version are you compiling on? The tutorial I have handy[1] says to compile with: make -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES I'm not sure if it makes a difference. Anyhow, the boot loader source looks like it can't cope with both TFTP and NFS at the same time, so there might be a bug in there after all. Erik [1] http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/index.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
I tried building it on 7.0-PRERELEASE and it builds fine for me. Haven't tested if it works yet, but will do in a moment. I can confirm that the same thing happens on 7. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
Rek Jed skrev: I've been playing with thinbsd (http://www.thinbsd.org/) a while back. It also boots from tftp without nfs and their boot loader works fine (boots straight away). Latest thinbsd is based on 5.4 so maybe it broke in 6.x? For a workaround I used pxeboot from thinbsd with my 6.3 jumpstart setup and it seems to work fine. However this is quite dirty. I agree that building a boot loader for TFTP should work on current sources, but what makes you think using an old boot loader is dirty? It's just a utility to load a kernel from the network. It's not like it will affect your system when it's installed. Erik (Cederstrand) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
