On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:00:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You'd need to modify the /linuxrc script in the initrd image to pass > the runlevel from the commandline on to the /sbin/init program.
This would be the most elegant way IMHO. It would be a small change yet add considerable flexibility to ltsp. Any chance of getting this in the official release? > Or, another method would be to pass an argument on the kernel command > line, maybe something descriptive like 'FIXWIN=Y'. > > This would get passed as an environment variable to the rc.sysinit > script, which could then be modified to look for $FIXWIN and see if it > equals 'Y'. If it does, invoke your fix_windows script. That wouldn't > require a change to inittab. I've just tried this and it works as you say. That will get me out of trouble for now. Now onto the next problem! Thanks very much for your help. > On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Norman Gaywood wrote: > > I'm using ltsp4. > > > > How do you pass a run level to init when booting a ltsp kernel? > > > > Here is my setup: > > > > 1. Workstation uses dhcp and tftp to boot nbgrub. > > > > 2. nbgrub provides a menu with choices: > > Linux Terminal (ltsp) > > windows on local disk > > > > The nbgrub entry for the linux terminal looks like: > > > > title Linux Terminal (ltsp) > > root (nd) > > kernel /lts/2.4.22-ltsp-2/bzImage-2.4.22-ltsp-2 init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 > > initrd /lts/2.4.22-ltsp-2/initrd-2.4.22-ltsp-2.gz > > > > That works great, I can boot ltsp or the local disk. > > > > But, the other thing I want to do is have another entry in the grub > > menu. Say: "Fix broken windows partition". This should boot ltsp but not > > start the X server. It should start something like this from inittab: > > > > dr:4:wait:/etc/rc.diskrefresh > > > > rc.diskrefresh should copy images to the local disk and then reboot > > the client. > > > > But to do that, I need a runlevel 4. I have not been able to do that. I > > thought: > > > > kernel /lts/2.4.22-ltsp-2/bzImage-2.4.22-ltsp-2 init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 4 > > > > would do it but the client always goes to runlevel 5 -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _____________________________________________________________________ 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.freenode.net
