On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Bruce Lane wrote:

> 	Sometimes, I feel like just whacking myself with a clue-by-four...

You might want to do it again...

> 	1). At one point in the boot process, it says 'Boot device: <unknown>' and
> prompts me for 'Root device:' I have been responding 'qe0' sans quotes
> since the root is located on a Linux box.
> 
> 	2). The next thing it prompts me for is 'Dump device:' I've been telling
> it 'None.' Is this right?

Yup.

> 	3). Here's the kicker. It then asks me for 'file system' to which I've
> tried responding with both 'generic' (the default) and 'nfs.' The result is
> the same: It gets to this point...
> 
> 	exec /sbin/init: error 8
> 	init not found
> 	Panic: no init
> 	(it then says 'Stopped at' and gives a hex address)
> 	db>
> 
> 	...and then halts as shown with a db> prompt. I find, then, that I have
> some very limited commands. However, I've also checked the directory on the
> Linux box where the NetBSD tree is. I have it stashed in:
> 
> 	/home/netbsd/root
> 
> 	And, when I ls -l the directory /home/netbsd/root/sbin/init, the file is
> very much present and accounted for. The permissions are set at 755, so I
> know I can read and execute it remotely, and the group is set to 0 for the
> entire directory.
> 
> 	Any thoughts?

Yes. I sure hope you have the filesystem exported with root as root, or
you'll get UID -2 here. Second, the file might be okay, but how about the
/sbin directory? What about fileprotection there?

> 	As a final note: Once I get netbooting straightened out once and for all,
> is there a FAQ to do a local installation on a netbooted workstation? I'd
> rather not have to depend on the Linux box being a bootserver its entire life.

Getting a system installed on a local disk is pretty easy. Just mount the
disk, and start unpacking the tar-balls, and do all the neccesary
incantations (MAKEDEV, disklabel -B and so on...)

	Johnny

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