Hi ltsp list.
I'm back after a year or so, working on a new configuration of diskless
clients. I've noticed a few things have changed and I am also trying to
clean the cobwebs from my memory on how this stuff all works. Some help
would be appreciated.
My diskless client is an ASUS A7N8X nforce2-based MOBO, Athlon XP 2200+,
and 128 MB of memory. I noticed some discussion on the list about
troubles with using the nVidia chipset, but this was not an issue. It
simply required building the nvnet.o driver from nVidia with the target
kernel, plopping it into the right directory, depmodding and voila. I did
have to do a couple of custom things to get the kernel to find the right
driver, but it loaded and used it just fine.
My problems are three:
1) PXELINUX
I am using PXE from the client machine, a simple flag to turn on in the
bios. PXELINUX loads on the client, but never gets past:
My IP address seems to be 0A000065 10.0.0.101
ip=10.0.0.101:10.0.0.11:10.0.0.1:255.255.255.0
(happy blinking cursor)
My /tftpboot directory has a pxelinux.cfg/0A000065 file and a
pxelinux.cfg/default, but there is never an attempt at downloading them.
The last message in my /var/log/messages file on the server is:
Sep 30 06:01:08 blackbox in.tftpd[2742]: RRQ from 10.0.0.101 filename
pxelinux.0
SO, I tried using the pxe server distributed with RedHat 9 and got much
further.
2) linuxrc script
I'm sure it is my oversight, but there are two places in the linuxrc
script that don't seem right to me. One, is that the last line in the
script is:
exec /sbin/init
With no specified run level. This results in a usage message from init:
Usage: init 0123456SsQqAaBbCcUu
I added an init level to get past this. The next failure comes when the
message "init: cannot create /tmp/initrunlvl". Upon investigation, this
file system is mounted by the script read-only. I chnaged this to rw and
tried again.
3) Final message:
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:01
I'm stopped here, not sure how to proceed or trouble shoot. Any ideas
what 01:01 is? Any help would be much appreciated.
For reference, I am using ltsp_core-3.0.9-0, ltsp_kernel-3.0.11-0, and
building the kernels and drivers with ltsp_initrd_kit-3.0.10.
Thanks!
-don
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