What's the CPU in the client?
Can you try the latest updates to LTSP-4.2? It includes a 2.6.17.3 kernel.
Jim McQuillan
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On Thu, July 20, 2006 6:52 am, Metal Gear wrote:
> hi,
> when i tried the following lines, my thin client hanged on "Uncompressing
> Linux...Ok booting the kernel" just stops there. Any solution for it.
>
> On 7/20/06, Ashish Nabira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Just try with this, it worked for me.
>>
>>
>>
>> host ws246 {
>> hardware ethernet 00:01:03:e9:4e:88;
>> fixed-address 192.168.1.246;
>> filename "/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/pxelinux.0";
>> }
>>
>>
>> Note: It works for PXE clinet only.
>>
>> Thanks and regards;
>> Ashish Nabira
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>>
>>
>>
>> Metal Gear wrote On 07/19/06 17:32,:
>>
>> hi,
>> i tried the DHCP trick u mentioned using the following,
>> host ws246 {
>> hardware ethernet 00:01:03:e9:4e:88;
>> fixed-address 192.168.1.246;
>> if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) =
>> "PXEClient"
>> {
>> filename "/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/eb-5.4.2-3c90x.zpxe";
>> } else if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) =
>> "Etherboot" {
>> filename "/lts/vmlinuz-2.6.16.1-ltsp-2 ";
>> #option vendor-encapsulated-options
>> 3c:09:45:74:68:65:72:62:6f:6f:74:ff;
>> }
>> }
>> but i m getting "segemet does not fit in any memory" i think i have to
>> do
>> mknbi tagging, can someone help me in that.
>>
>> I haven't tried flashing rom yet.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> On 7/14/06, Anselm Martin Hoffmeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Am Donnerstag, den 13.07.2006, 12:37 +0500 schrieb Metal Gear:
>> > > hi all,
>> > > i am trying to boot a workstation using PXE. I am facing a strange
>> > > problem, follwoing is my dhcpd.conf
>> >
>> > > ########################################################
>> > > when i try to use only 'filename "/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/pxelinux.0";'
>> > > only then thin client hangs on "uncompressing the linux...." and
>> when
>> > > i try to use 'filename "/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/eb-5.4.2-3c90x.zpxe'
>> then
>> > > thin client constantly emits debugging messages. In then end i have
>> to
>> >
>> > > use 'filename "/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/eb-5.4.2-3c90x.zpxe' and then
>> > > restart my dhcp service at that point thin client is constatly
>> > > emitting messages and does no load gnome. In the second step i
>> > > uncomment the line 'filename "/lts/2.6.16.1-ltsp-2/pxelinux.0'
>> > > eventually the thin client goes into gnome. I am using 3 com
>> > > 3C905-TX-M card.
>> > > Any help would be appreciated,
>> >
>> > This sounds as if the PXE implementation on your 3com card is broken,
>> > and will not execute "pxelinux". It will run Etherboot though, which
>> in
>> > turn is able to run pxelinux, weird enough.
>> >
>> > My first advice is to get rid of the 3com boot loader on that 3c905 -
>> > those boards iirc have a flash memory on it that can be reprogrammed
>> > in-situ, with appropriate software (probably available from 3com). Get
>> > Etherboot (in .zrom format) and burn it into that chip, which should
>> you
>> > get rid of that problem.
>> >
>> > If that is not possible, a bit of DHCP magic should do the trick.
>> Every
>> > client software should send a "client identifier" string when
>> requesting
>> > an address. Find out what 3com and Etherboot send (ethereal is your
>> > friend). Use the trick described in
>> > http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/pxe.howto.html
>> > and set that if-else-statement (about three screens worth of text down
>> > that document) to refer to pxelinux.0 and the etherboot....zpxe file,
>> > respectively.
>> >
>> > Sorry I'm too lazy to write that down, time to get some sleep. Ask
>> back
>> > if you don't work all that out yourself.
>> >
>> > Hth
>> > Anselm
>> >
>>
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