Re: nfsroot with netbsd-8

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 09:43:31 +1000
Paul Ripke <stix%stix.id.au@localhost> wrote:

> I tried upgrading a little nfsroot sparc box to netbsd-8, and have
> run into an interesting problem:
> 
> root on le0
> nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
> nfs_boot: DHCP next-server: 192.168.0.1
> nfs_boot: my_name=orac
> nfs_boot: my_domain=private
> nfs_boot: my_addr=192.168.0.12
> nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.255.0
> nfs_boot: gateway=192.168.0.1
> root on 192.168.0.1:/home/orac
> root file system type: nfs
> kern.module.path=/stand/sparc/8.0/modules
> warning: lookup /dev/console: error 13
> panic: init died (signal 6, exit 5)
> 
> So, the kernel loads successfully via nfs, configures le0 fine, even
> loads /sbin/init - but fails on /dev/console. And the /dev/console
> looks fine:
> 
> crw-------  1 root  wheel  0, 0 Dec 29  2016 /home/orac/dev/console
> 
> Looking at the nfs traffic during the boot, I see a permission denied
> for an odd major/minor filehandle, which I think is the lookup on
> /dev/console. Anyone have any ideas what's going on? fwiw, the server
> is amd64, netbsd-7.

My guess: you probably need -maproot=0:0 in your /etc/exports line

have fun
Michael