wow:you are the first news ive heard of the 8362 doing anthing at all.can you write up what you have?this boot with yaboot? and an internal cf drive or something// ? is that kernel compressed or noy vmlinuz vs vmlinux.. i have only one ..and John Leonard has a few.. give us a blow by blow if you would..is this anetboot situation?chuck just to clarify..it is not my kernel > Hi folks, > > I finally managed to bring up a "recent" Linux on my old but beloved > NetStation (small, fanless, low power consumption, and absolutely > silent). > > Accidentally I found NetworkStation project (networkstation.sf.net) and > managed to bring up a woody from the coruna repositories and > successfully upgraded to sarge. - Great. > > Now I wanted to try the trick with the ltsp-ppc tree from Chuck. What I > got is a monolithic 2.4.21 kernel with a hardcoded NFS-root in it. But > when I boot it (with the ltsp-ppc root-tree as nfs-root), the Netstation > brings up the kernel, mounts the root-fs but than says: > > Warning: unable to open an initial console. > > Chucks kernel had appended to the cmd-line init=/linuxrc. - I suppose > this is part of the problem. > > ... I suspect my trial was a bit naive ;-). Anyhow, now as I see a good > chance to get LTSP-ppc working, I find this worth pursuing. > > Now my questions: > (1) Am I right, that I don't need an initrd, if I use a monolithic > kernel? > > (2) Is there a way to re-tag/ modify the kernel I have for ltsp, e.g. by > adding the "init=/linuxrc" cmd-line-option? > > (3) If I have to build my own kernel for ltsp - What do I do, since this > is ppc and not i386? > > Your help is appreciated! Thanks! > > Stefan. > > > -- > / Stefan Ulrich Hegner aka "Hegi" - Loehne/ Westfalen - Germany \ > | [EMAIL PROTECTED], my Cyberhome http://www.hegner-web.de| > \ GPG-Fprint D9DB 51BD 2DA6 9B3A 41CB 0287 05A1 8D11 38BA CE91 / > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share > your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV_____________________________________________________________________ > 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 >
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