FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I've got a 9.0-R amd64 system I'm trying to netboot / pxeboot from the network, to install other machines (and do fixups etc.) I set this up as we setup previous versions here - but setting up a tftp server, and nfs server - and 'dumping' the contents of the install CD to a directory on

Re: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread egoitz
Take a look at freebsd-hackers mailing list... I have suggested some change in some Makefile and sh script in order to unless at this moment to be able to have an unattended system built with sysinstall (the idea I think it was to maintain sysinstall in 9.0 unless) and using you're

Re: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 01 March 2012 11:53 +0100 ego...@ramattack.net wrote: So I recomend you reading last mails of mine in freebsd-hackers... Hope it helps, Bye! For what it's worth - I've resolved the issue I had (which was basically the system booted, but failed trying to re-mount root as RW, and hence

Re: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread egoitz
In the new way of booting... you need to have the cd because the own cd is the root filesystem... and in fact is live filesystem too so unless you're booting from mfsroot... I assume you should have that line in /etc/fstab inside the iso image but if you're using mfsroot... I really