forward to jamcq quite sure /tmp is on a ramdisk..job for jammcq > Hi Chuck, > > Am Freitag, den 02.02.2007, 18:25 -0500 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> i do have the latest powerpc nfs root filesystem..but cant tell you >> whether it loks for linuxrc or init or whst..i might have time this >> weektar.end..if the nfsroot helps you it is at >> 169.244.3.137/ltsp5/powerpc.tar.gz > > Thanks for the link! > > Today I managed to boot the kernel with initrd I uploaded yesterday into > your old ltsp-nfs-root-tree! We are getting forward. > >> > However, currently I'm stuck, because after pivoting the root >> > I cannot mount devfs (which appears to be not available for ppc arch) >> > and the /sbin/init from the apple.tar.gz LTSP-root-fs does either not >> > work or not start properly ;-( >> > >> > My konsole tells me: >> > >> > [...] >> > Mounting the devfs filesystem >> > mount: Mounting /devfs on /dev failed: No such device >> > Running /sbin/init >> > >> > ... and then it locks up. > > Init died, because there were no nodes in /dev. I now manually copied a > few nodes into the ltsp-tree: > >> ls -l /opt/ltsp-4.2/ppc/dev > insgesamt 0 > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 5, 1 16. Jan 2004 console > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 16. Jan 2004 null > brw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 0 16. Jan 2004 ram0 > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 0 16. Jan 2004 tty0 > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 1 16. Jan 2004 tty1 > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 2 16. Jan 2004 tty2 > [...] > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 3 16. Jan 2004 tty11 > crw-r--r-- 1 root root 4, 3 16. Jan 2004 tty12 > > Now I get the client up. However, it is no solution to have the device > nodes on the ro-nfs-tree. - So I cannot bring up an X. > > Is there a way to have /dev somewhere on a ramdisk? > > I also tried your new ltsp-5. However there the (identical > initrd-kernel) kernel gets stuck, when trying to pivot the root. > > It tells me "pivot_root: No such file or directory."- And that, although > it's there on the initrd. If I integrate things like "ls -l /sbin/p*" > into linuxrc it shows me "/sbin/pivot_root -> ../bin/busybox" and > busybox is also there ... > > And yes, this other NFS-tree has the IDENTICAL settings as the old > ltsp-tree, I restarted the nfs-server and also checked the > file-permissions ... > > This is something I find utterly strange! Any ideas, where the problem > might be? > > I'd rather spent my time to bring up ltsp-5 and feed the progress back > into the project than fiddeling with the old stuff. > > Thanks a lot in advance! > > 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 / > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642_____________________________________________________________________ > 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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