On 5/5/06, John Blinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I help out with a local school using an ltsp server to run 50-60 ancient
pentium boxes as terminals. I've run gentoo and ltsp on this server for
almost
a year without problems. However, a few weeks ago there had been a sudden
power outage (and no ups) which took the server and terminals down.
Ever since that event, we've not been able to get the terminals to boot.
We get as far as this message on the terminals:
Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal? N
Probing...[3C5x9]3C5x9 board on ISA at 0x300 - 10baseT
Ethernet address: 00:A0:24:98:14:55
Searching for Server (DHCP)...
............ No Server found
The server is up and running. I can log into it remotely via
ssh or VNC and everything seems to be operating normally.
A dhcp daemon is running, and, in fact is supplying ip addresses
to a bunch of windows boxes on the school network.
Any suggestions on how to debug this are welcome!
How are the boxes connected to the network? A hub? A switch? Router
maybe? Try using the network spot (where one of the failing boxes is
connected) with a notebook or another machine that you know has no
problems. Also check the cables and other network devices between the
boxes and the DHCP server. I doubt a software failure would get all
your boxes down at the same time.
So, its my bet, a physical problem, but I'm not an expert.
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Daniel da Veiga
Computer Operator - RS - Brazil
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