Subject: Re: Problem NetBooting a VAXstation 2000
To: Frederik Meerwaldt <frederik@freddym.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/20/2000 15:19:02
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Frederik Meerwaldt wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > Does the file server.wes.mee.com:/export/vs2000/root/sbin/init exist on
> > your fileserver (i.e. have you untarred all the binary sets under the
> > /export/vs2000/root directory on your FreeBSD fileserver?)  You might also
> > check that it's permissions and mode are set correctly.
> 
> Hmm:
> [frederik@server frederik]$ ls -l /export/vs2000/root/sbin/init
> -r-xr--r--  1 root  wheel  151552 Mar 23 13:59 /export/vs2000/root/sbin/init
> 
> It looks good, doesn't it?
> 
	Yes, also only executable by root.

> > Also, you might want to make sure that the FreeBSD box is exporting that
> > directory with full NFS r/w access to your VS2000.  I'm not sure that not
> > having that setup would cause the error you're seeing, but it will become
> > a problem later in the boot process.
> 
> It is fuly NFS r/w exported, so that can't be the problem either.

	Do you have it with root mapped to uid 0?

                David/absolute
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