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
locking fails and reports "operation not supported".
Are you mounting /var via nfs? We have been running FreeBSD
diskless for several years, and have never run into this problem - but we
use a memory filesystem. The memory filesystem can be quite small. Our
methods are documented at
http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html
If that isn't the problem, can you guess what we are doing differently to
avoid it?
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 patch to mainline code - it would be an
important improvement (and already promised in the documentation).
(I am sorry if this doesn't thread properly - I just joined the list after
seeing the message). The thread is available at:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-January/060854.html
Daniel Feenberg
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