Subject: Re: diskless boot
To: Milos Urbanek <urbanek@openbsd.cz>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 11/03/2003 23:12:51
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:28:56PM +0100, Milos Urbanek wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to setup a diskless machine (usable e.g. for crash testing etc.).
> I read diskless(5) etc. I got PXE working, the second-stage bootstrap
> pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin over serial console works fine aswell.
> 
> The kernel is successfully loaded via tftp.
> All goes fine until the last stage> mounting the root filesystem over nfs.
> 
> At the serial console from the diskless server I get the following error:
> 
> boot device: ex0
> root on ex0
> nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
> nfs_boot: DHCP next-server: 10.0.1.1
> nfs_boot: my_name=xcrash
> nfs_boot: my_domain=mydomain.com
> nfs_boot: my_addr=10.0.1.2
> nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.255.0
> nfs_boot: gateway=10.0.1.1
> nfs_boot: sosend: 49
> nfs_boot: mountd error=49
> nfs_boot: mountd `10.0.1.1:/export/crash', error=49
> no file system for ex0
> cannot mount root, error = 79
> root device (default ex0):

Hum, error 49 is EADDRNOTAVAIL "Can't assign requested address"
I don't think it has something to do with the server, it looks like a problem
on the local box.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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