Re: Netbooting a machine w/ a disk

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Dustin Marquess wrote:

> >        If you set the raid to autoconfigure as a root filesystem
> >        (raidctl raid0 -A root) then a kernel will automatically
> >        use it as the root filesystem, at least for a standard
> >        kernel without a hardcoded root device. I've not tried it
> >        with a kernel which had hardcoded the root device - let us
> >        know what happens :)
>
> Honestly I went ahead and rebuilt a kernel hardcoded to raid0a to be
> on the safe side, and it worked great.  I still have the old one
> backed up however that I could try if you really want me to, but
> honestly I'm slightly scared :).

        Heh, give is a span next time you need to reboot for any
        other reason maybe.

> Only weird thing that I've noticed is that once I'm in NetBSD, if I
> reboot/halt back to SRM and try to boot again, BOOTP just sits there
> and times out, almost like network connectivity isn't working.  But if
> I 'init', it works again.  Very strange..

        It sounds like NetBSD is leaving the network interface in a
        state that SRM doesn't quite handle. Out of curiosity what
        happens if you delete the network interface and shutdown
        the interface before halting - 'ifconfig tlp0 delete'
        'ifconfig tlp down' (replace tlp0 with network interface
        of choice :)


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