Problem: booting VAX station 3200 off uVAX II (3.0)

Frederick M. Avolio avolio at decuac.dec.com
Tue May 23 21:53:50 AEST 1989


In article <1094 at garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> hafner at bach.csg.uiuc.edu.UUCP (Brian J. Hafner) writes:
>
>I'm having trouble booting a diskless monochrome Vax Station 3200 off
>of a uVax II running 3.0.  ...
>recognizes its devices, mounts root, mounts swap, and hangs.  The last message
>states the swap size: 32000+ blocks (16M)....

I don't think it is mounting root.

>/var/diskless/dlclient0 are in the same physical partition.  Further,
>I have a symbolic link from /var/diskless to /home/machine/diskless.

Symbolic links won't work across NFS.  I believe the problem is the
same as the one mentioned earlier here.  You need to allow root
"access/use" for the actual partition you are using from remote
systems for mounting root.  It doesn't sound like you are.

Fred



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