I had that problem and ended up building my own mknbi package, narrowed it down to just putting the exact nic drivers I need in the root directory structure and keeping the whole package "vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-5" down to under 850k-900k I actually found out to within 10k, just can't find where I documented it :) (I am at 821k right now)
clients are AST 486/16MB Ram -----Original Message----- From: Brian Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, May 10, 2002 1:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] ISA 3c509 NIC:s This sounds like my problem - has there been any progress on this? 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 _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [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 _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [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
