FreeBSD trying to mount before bce0 comes up

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Jayuqo

Good day,

Why would FreeBSD try to mount what's in the fstab before the NIC interface (bce0) comes up? When it happens, it takes me to single user mode and I just type mount -a and it mounts my external points because bce0 is now up at this point. I tried it v8.1 with a Dell 1950 and a R610 but same problem.

Is there any way you can force fstab to try to mount only if bce0 comes up first? Can you tell it to retry at the end of the boot process? Or can you get bce0 to come up before everything else?

Thanks
Jay
 
Are you trying to mount an NFS/SMB share?

This won't work, you need fstab to mount your file systems first, otherwise you won't have an Operating System/Network stack to initialize. I would set your mounts to noauto in fstab and have a script later in the boot to mount them (maybe a shell script) which is able to check for the existence of a. a network connection b. access to the remote server.
 
It tries to mount a shared folder sitting on another server using NFS.

I basically install FreeBSD and I update the ports using the file server (NFS mount)
 
Jayuqo said:
It tries to mount a shared folder sitting on another server using NFS.

I basically install FreeBSD and I update the ports using the file server (NFS mount)
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See DutchDaemon's solution.
 
So the "late" and "SYNCDHCP" worked fine but I'm still having problem with one of my server with a static IP address. Basically, it will try to mount before the network interface comes up. Is there an equivalent of "SYNCDHCP" for static IP?

Thanks
 
I had the same problem with certain services not starting because bce0 wasn't up yet. So I interjected a 10 second sleep in /etc/rc.d/netif. I'm not certain this would solve your problem due to the fstab being processed before netif, but the noauto flag and a new RC script that requires networking sounds like it would work well, maybe in conjunction with the sleep in netif. Just a thought.
 
So here's what I got in the /etc/fstab:

Code: 
mountpoint1:/ifs/home     /home      nfs    rw,tcp,late     0    0
mountpoint2:/ifs/data     /data      nfs    rw,tcp,late     0    0

The address is statically assigned and yet, the NIC comes up after it tries to mount which causes the system to go in single-user mode. Any ideas?
 
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