On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:26:52PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:06:56PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Some time in the last 5 or 6 days days diskless booting has become > > broken: > > > > Mounting root from nfs: > > NFS ROOT: 216.136.204.23:/a/nfs/5.dir3 > > Interface fxp0 IP-Address 216.136.204.57 Broadcast 216.136.204.127 > > load: 1.00 cmd: newfs 66 [block] 0.00u 0.01s 0% 640k > > > > It looks like it's hanging at the point where it tries to create the > > md filesystems. I tried going back to kernels from 2-4 days ago, but > > they all panic for various mutex-related reasons. > > Adding the following early in etc/rc.d/initdiskless made things work for > me (code stolen from initrandom): > > > # XXX temporary until we can improve the entropy > > # harvesting rate. > > # Entropy below is not great, but better than nothing. > > # This unblocks the generator at startup > > ( ps -fauxww; sysctl -a; date; df -ib; dmesg; ps -fauxww; ) \ > > | dd of=/dev/random bs=8k 2>/dev/null > > cat /bin/ls | dd of=/dev/random bs=8k 2>/dev/null Thanks, this works around the problem for me too. Kris
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