Hi, This is probably going to turn out to be a real newby request but here goes ...
I am having trouble getting a Dell GX620 (ultra small unit) to boot via PXE. I am using a Dell GX620 Desktop machine loaded with Fedora Core 4 as the LTSP Server and can boot an old Dell LS Laptop from it. I understand that the Dell GX620 range contains the same basic hardware and therefore assume that the GX620 Desktop and Ultra Small unit contain the same on-board network card which is the Broadcom 57xx card. When I try to boot the GX6200 Ultra Small unit it picks up the pxelinux.0 and loads the kernel image (bzImage-2.6.9-ltsp-3) and the initrd (initrd-2.6.9-ltsp-3.gz) messages scroll past until the process stops with the messages: ERROR! Could not automatically detect the network card. PCI cards should be detected automatically ... Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! What have I tried: Well, 1) I have checked what type of network card mod the kernel on the Server is using and lsmod returns tg3 which I think is the correct driver for the Broadcom 57xx. 2) I have a copy of the Ubuntu 5.10 install CD and have copied the initrd and kernel images from it and configured the server to boot the client from that. It worked!, and starts the install process. By pressing Ctrl + Alt + F2 on the client (GX620 Ultra Small unit) I get a shell and have checked what network card mod the kernel is using on the client (lsmod returns tg3). I have taken copies of both the Ubuntu 5.10 initrd and the initrd-2.6.9- ltsp-3.gz unzipped them both and mounted them to check differences. As I am sure you all know there are some, but the ones that seemed to be relevant are around the modules.pcimap, modules.alias, and niclist (there is not one in /etc in the Ubuntu initrd). The tg3.ko files are of different sizes. I have tried to bring the modules.pcimap and modules.alias files into the same state and have copied the Ubuntu tg3.ko file over to the initrd-2.6.9-ltsp-3 initrd. This was all done in a large number of steps retesting between mods. 3) I have tried to download and compile both the linux-2.6.12 and linux-2.6.13 kernels (with and without the Broadcom driver down loaded from their website) but still get the same problem. nb: I do get a couple of messages when using the buildk script which I downloaded as part of the ltsp_initrd_kit. These are: zipping initrd running mknbi-linux mknbi-linux: invalid option "--output" ls: /usr/src/ltsp_initrd_kit/vmlinuz-2.6.12: No such file or directory 4) I have tried adding the "option option-129 "NIC=tg3";" line to the dhcpd.conf file but to no joy. Can anyone give me any pointers? Best regards, Patrick ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today * Register for a JBoss Training Course Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005 Visit http://www.jboss.com/services/certification for more information _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
