Ake, For 486's, i've been getting alot of reports that the initrd isn't being loaded in RAM properly. This seems to be a problem relating to mknbi-linux.
mknbi-linux version 1.2-5, it seemed to work fine, but the latest LTSP kernels were tagged with 1.2-7, and many 486's are having trouble. I've been trying to track it down, before sending mail to Ken Yap or the Etherboot mailing list, because I'd like to provide details, and I don't have a 486 to test with. Once it fails, if you could hit the Shift-PageUp key and scroll all the way back to the beginning of the boot process, you should see where it reports the size and starting address of the initrd ramdisk. If you could copy down the memory map that print out, and send them to me, that would be helpful. Please start with the first lines after the long stream of dots. It should start with 'mknbi-1.2-7/first32.c' I need to see about 19 lines, up through the 'Kernel command line:'. If everyone having trouble with booting 486's with the latest LTSP kernels could send me that information, I can begin to track down the problem. Thanks, Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 7 Apr 2002, Åke Hoff wrote: > I have 1 Mandrake 8.1 Dell server runing with all the nesecery services up > and runing. And I have 10 diskless AST 486 with 3c509 ISA NIC:s. The AST > machines sems to boot fine until a point: " VFS: Cannot open root device > "ram0" or 01:00 " Why is that? Maby it have somthing to do with my second > question. > > In the documentation it says that " For ISA cards, the driver module MUST > be specified on the kernel command line, along with any IRQ or adress > parameters that are required." Where do I specife it. In which file? > > The system runs fine on a klient with a pci NIC. > > Regards Åke Hoff > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > 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
