From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <9ac57188fd3dd591041a4c7d5c5a3c56@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:54:36 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Netbooting from Qemu Topicbox-Message-UUID: 71c73068-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > bootfile=ether0!/386/9pccpu.gz > bootargs=tcp!192.168.1.40!564 -D > fs=192.168.1.40 > auth=192.168.1.50 > sysname=cpu-003 > *nomp=1 > *debugload=1 > *nodumpstack=1 i think that should be should be (indent for clarity) bootfile=ether0!$mydhcpserver!/386/9pccpu.gz nobootprompt=tcp otherwise i believe you will be prompted on the console for a root fs. also, you would be much better off creating a ipnet entry in ndb. i have a dim recollection of having trouble when this was set up incorrectly, causing cs confusion. setting the ipnet stuff allows the fs ip addr to be inferred. in your case, you want entries something like this: ipnet=mynet ip=192.168.1.0 ipmask=/120 fs=myfs.example.net ipgw=192.168.1.? gw=mygw.example.net dns=192.168.1.40 dnsdomain=example.net authdom=myauthdom auth=myfs cpu=myfs sys=mygw ip=192.168.1.? ether=000102030405 dom=mygw.example.net sys=myfs ip=192.168.1.40 ether=000102030405 dom=myfs.example.net sys=cpu-003 ip=192.168.1.33 ether=000102030405 dom=cpu-003.example.net bootf=/386/9pxeload - erik