Subject: Re: netbooting vlc4000 question
To: None <fdebros@etherdome.mgh.harvard.edu>
From: Linc Fessenden <linc@sparc.linc.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/14/2001 18:09:21
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 fdebros@etherdome.mgh.harvard.edu wrote:

> All goes like on the mv3100, the boot device is le0, ok, nfs_boot times out
> three times after DHCP/BOOTP and hostname=name,  but finally i get:
> 
> root on server:/path/dir
> clock has lost ....RESET THE DATE
> root file system type: nfs
> /etc/rc.conf is not cfgd. Multiuser boot aborted.
> 
> BUT THEN ITS ~STUCK"  ON :
> 
> Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: [cursor]
> 
> 
> Where do I have a glitch?
> 
> Fred
> 
> hmmm...mmcmanus is buying up all those vlc 4000 on ebay?
> 

OK, here's the *easy* solution..  Since your root partition is NFS
mounted, just get into it on the machine that's serving it and chamnge the
rc.local to configured=YES..  Then boot it up!