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From: graichen@sirius.physik.fu-berlin.de (Thomas Graichen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: diskless booting w/ 3c503 ethernet card fails?
Date: 1 Sep 1995 17:28:20 GMT
Organization: Freie Universitaet Berlin
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i set up a diskless FreeBSD box some day ago - with smc-ultra but i also had
problems with a hanging system at the moment it started to swap - my
question now is - how have you created your swap-file - touch like in the
FAQ ? - this way it hung for me - but if you create it using dd if=/dev/zero
of=swap.X.X.X.X bs=1k count=Y with X.X.X.X you know and Y the size you give
in the cfg.X.X.X.X file - this way it worked for me - also try to find an
old disk and swap locally - this should then also look - maybe this helps
you a bit
t
Martin Birgmeier (martin@hal.nt.tuwien.ac.at) wrote:
: Hi netters,
: I've a PC which I would like to boot diskless from another PC which
: is running FreeBSD2.x current (nearly). What happens is that after
: about /etc/netstart is done, the system hangs and finally prints
: an nfs timeout message for the root fs (just the usual `not
: responding' message for an nfs hang).
: With tcpdump on the server FreeBSD I *think* I see that multiple
: nfs frags get sent after each other, so I'm suspecting that somehow
: the rsize=1024,wsize=1024 parameters are not honored, which I had
: set so that the 3c503 would work. Also, it seems that this happens
: when the system tries to swap for the first time (in spite of
: telling that it hangs on /), because I can add/delete statements
: in /etc/rc and /etc/netstart, and it will only execute about the
: same number of commands which will presumably fill up its memory
: (if I shorten /etc/netstart, it goes a little further in /etc/rc).
: Also, the swapfile never has its mtime changed.
: This leads me to suspect that rsize=1024 and wsize=1024 are honored
: for the root mount (it reads lots from there, anyways), but not
: for the swap mount (it seems to fail when trying to swap for the
: first time). I have augmented nfs_vfsops.c with printf's to tell
: me the root and swap sizes just before nfs_mountdiskless is called,
: it's ok to this point. However, I don't know in which direction to
: proceed further.
: Only today I recompiled the kernel for the diskless machine because
: it had not worked for a while due to the root vnode being set to
: VNON instead of VDIR (I think), so that is the latest code. I don't
: know if I might have to recompile the kernel on the server too,
: it's from July 31, a compile from yesterday would hang after fsck,
: I suspect something might have changed such that I'd need new
: binaries which I don't want to generate. So, any clues would be
: appreciated.
: More info:
: cfg.<server> contains
: hostname konsul.nt.tuwien.ac.at
: rootfs <server ip>:/diskless/konsul/root
: swapfs <server ip>:/diskless/konsul/swap
: swapsize 16384
: rootopts resvport,rsize=1024,wsize=1024
: swapopts resvport,rsize=1024,wsize=1024
: netmask 255.255.255.128
: kernel /kernel
: config file is:
: #
: # @(#) KONSUL_01 V1.0 MB 20 June 1995
: #
: machine "i386"
: cpu "I486_CPU"
: ident "KONSUL_01"
: maxusers 10
: options "AUTO_EOI_1"
: options BOUNCE_BUFFERS
: options "COMPAT_43"
: options FFS
: options INET
: options "MAXCONS=8"
: options NFS
: options SYSVMSG
: options SYSVSEM
: options SYSVSHM
: options UCONSOLE
: config kernel root on sd0 swap on sd0 dumps on sd0
: controller isa0
: controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr
: disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0
: disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1
: controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 vector wdintr
: disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0
: disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1
: controller aha0 at isa? port "IO_AHA0" bio irq 11 drq 5 vector ahaintr
: controller scbus0
: device sd0
: device st0
: device cd0
: device sc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr
: device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" irq 13 vector npxintr
: device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty irq 4 vector siointr
: device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr
: device lpt0 at isa? port "IO_LPT1" tty irq 7 vector lptintr
: device ed0 at isa? port 0x330 net irq 5 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr
: pseudo-device bpfilter 4
: pseudo-device ether
: pseudo-device log
: pseudo-device loop
: pseudo-device pty 16
: pseudo-device speaker
: pseudo-device vn
: Thanks in advance for any info!
: Martin
: --
: Martin Birgmeier Martin.Birgmeier@nt.tuwien.ac.at
: Technische Universitaet Wien mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at
: Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik und Hochfrequenztechnik
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