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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