On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 05:45:59PM +1300, Matthew Luckie wrote:
#> > I'm glad this seems to be helping people out.  Please let me know if the
#> > directions are accurate.  Unfortunately, I wrote them afterwards, and
#> > there was so much trial and error I'm not sure if I left something out.
#> > If anything breaks, holler.
#> 
#> i am trying to get a qube2 to netboot off my freebsd nfs server, which is
#> running FreeBSD 4.4-RC.
#> i am unable to get the qube2 to seemingly boot far enough for me to be able
#> to telnet into it.
#> 
#> this is my setup.
#> i have a system with two hard disks.  the second hard disk has been mounted
#> to /nfsroot
#> my kernel does not have nfs compiled in, nor does it start nfsd at boot.
#> i have a shell script that i manually execute that has the following
#> contents:
#> 
#> #!/bin/sh
#> portmap
#> nfsd -u -t -n 4
#> mountd -r #-2r -d -l

	guess I'd just add these to your rc.conf on the fbsd box to save
	time.
#> 
#> ========
#> 
#> my /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf has the following:
#> 
#> default-lease-time 6000;
#> max-lease-time 7200;
#> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
#> option broadcast-address 192.168.0.255;
#> option routers 192.168.0.1;
#> option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.1;
#> option domain-name "fake.org.nz";
#> 
#> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
#>  range 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.20;
#> }
#> 
#> host qube {
#> hardware ethernet 0:10:e0:0:be:62;
#> fixed-address 192.168.0.66;
#> filename "/vmlinux.gz";
#> option root-path "/nfsroot";
#> }

	looks ok
#> 
#> =========
#> 
#> my /etc/exports has the following:
#> 
#> /nfsroot -maproot=root 192.168.0.66 192.168.0.1
#> 

	I've used '-maproot=0', but yours should work
#> =========
#> 
	I can't comment on the other parts of the setup, not sure if you
	need extra fstab entries.
#> 
#> ===========
#> 
	I'd suggest you run dhcpd with the -d option so you can better see
	what's happening on the bootp level.
#> 
#> i found that there were some stray symlinks in the /nfsroot that the tgz's
#> had pointing relative to root, so i re-symlinked them to their netbsd
#> counterparts (after failing to netboot the qube) although that didnt fix
#> anything:
#> 

	My experiences from netbooting in general aren't too good with 
	symlinking out of the mounted root.  I'd suggest you copy the things
	you need into your /nfsroot.
	
#> cd /nfsroot; ls -l | grep lr
#> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel         20 Oct  7 15:48 rmail ->
#> ../usr/libexec/rmail
#> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel           14 Oct  7 15:56 log -> ../var/run/log
#> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel        32 Oct  7 15:55 localtime ->
#> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific
#> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel        15 Oct  7 15:54 rmt -> ../usr/sbin/rmt
#> 
#> rmt and localtime are in /nfsroot/etc
#> log is in /nfsroot/dev
#> rmail is in /nfsroot/bin
#> 
#> I've never admin'd nfsd before, so i do not know how to find out what files
#> it cannot actually find.
#> i looked in /var/log/messages but there wasn't anything there.

	verbose dhcpd (as above) and tcpdump (or similar tool).

	.oO(now I just need to work on getting my raq2's to boot again)
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