NetBoot issues w/10.8.x server - FIX!

RobertHammen
Valued Contributor II

Ran into this internally, as well as a client. Even though I had a 10.8.3 NetBoot image that was diskless, I was not able to unmount the hard drive to image it. Further investigation showed the drive being mounted at /private/var/netboot, not in /Volumes.

Doing some searching, found this Apple Discussions thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4189082?start=0&tstart=0

Joel Bruner's response is the correct one.

Edit /etc/rc.netboot, line:
NETBOOT_SHADOW=${NETBOOT_SHADOW:-NETWORK-}

to be:
NETBOOT_SHADOW=${NETBOOT_SHADOW:=-NETWORK-}

(i.e. add in the = before the -NETWORK-}

Stop the NetInstall service ,restart it, NetBoot a machine, and voila, you should now see the hard disk mounting properly in /Volumes!

Hope Apple fixes this in 10.8.4. If you're bored, please file a bug report at http://bugreport.apple.com

Hope this helps somebody,

--Robert

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tkimpton
Valued Contributor II

Thanks Robert I'm that somebody :)

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