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From: avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Problem: booting VAX station 3200 off uVAX II (3.0)
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Date: 23 May 89 11:53:50 GMT
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In article <1094@garcon.cso.uiuc.edu> hafner@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