When compiling your kernel, did you make sure to select the 'mount at boot' option for devfs (should have been the first option under the dev filesystem option)?
Gerry Duprey wrote: >Howdy, > > Okay, downloaded it and eventually figured out what needed to go where. > > Problem is that there is nothing in /dev. Now I eventually figured out that >I had to build the devfs into my kernel (and did), but the actual /dev appears >to be populated at the start of rc.local. Unfortunatly, the init process >doesn't get that far - it immediatly dies saying > > Warning: Unable to open initial console > > Are there supposed to be some "bootstrap" /dev entries? the lts /dev >directory is completely empty. > > Thanks! > >"Egan, Matt B. (Artco)" wrote: > >>Local apps are broken in the 2.08 release >> >>Try the 2.09 pre 3 (maybe higher now) >> >>----Original Message----- >>From: Gerry Duprey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 11:34 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP, RH 7.1 And Local Apps >> >>Howdy All, >> >>After a long wait, I finally decided to upgrade my server to RedHat 7.1 and >>a >>2.4 based kernel. That upgrade went pretty well. >> >>As a consequence, I needed to also update my functioning LTSP install to the >>2.4.7 kernel. This is because I run local apps on the workstations and to >>make that as transparent as possible, the workstations mounts the /bin, >>/sbin >>and /lib directories from my server. >> >>I built a 2.4 based monolithic kernel for LTSP, installed it and it booted >>just ducky. But when control was suppose to turn over to the init process, >>it >>hung. Figuring it was some incompatibility, I eventually scrubbed my LTSP >>install (old and seriously modified) and downloaded the latest LTS Core >>2.08. >>I kept my 2.4 kernel. >> >>Things looked much better, except that now the rc.local script generated >>tons >>of errors. Turned out the 2.4 mount required /dev/null to exists before the >>mount command could mount the /tmp RAM file system. Made some little >>changes >>and finally got to the point where I was able to mount the rest of the >>directories. >> >>As soon as my system mounts /lib, everything croaks. I can't run virtually >>any command anymore (even ls and such give an "Illegal Instruction"). If I >>don't mount /lib, then most things work, but some commands don't (java, and >>a >>few others). >> >>My workstations are Pentium-MMX units and the server is a dual processor >>PIII. It appears that there is some i686 based code that the pentium-MMX is >>trying to execute and fails (at least, that is my current guess). However, >>since my workstation/MMX kernel is monolithic (no modules) and the only >>things >>that are 686 specific (that I know of) are the kernel for the server and the >>modules it loads, I can't understand how this could be "infecting" /lib. >> >>I'd very much appreciate any thoughts folks may have on this. I've been >>working on it (off an on) for two days and really haven't been able to budge >>past this point. All my apps depend heavily on local execution from a >>shared >>root (well, /bin, /sbin and /lib) environment. >> >>Thanks, very much, in advance for any help/pointers! >> >>-- >>Gerry Duprey >>Ann Arbor, MI >> >>_____________________________________________________________________ >>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.openprojects.net >> >>_____________________________________________________________________ >>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.openprojects.net >> > -- Jason A. Pattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________________________________________________ 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.openprojects.net
