Diskless boot fails when network card is reset before NFS root mount

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Feenberg
Our dozen diskless FreeBSD 7.0 machines are all able to diskless boot just fine. However, when we tried to set up a FreeBSD 8.0 root for them to boot from, the boot process would load up all the devices, and then fail right after the line NFS ROOT: ... We boot using pxeboot. pxeboot then

RE: Diskless boot fails when network card is reset before NFS root mount

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Feenberg
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=139363 suggests the fix is to set boot.nfsroot.options=nfsv2 in /boot/loader.conf or via dhcp. I can see how to set options in /boot/loader.conf, but I don't see how boot loader options can be set in dhcpd.conf. All I have is: