In my quest for a totally silent workstation, I've removed the hard drive from one of my computers, installed that same hard drive into my local server, and exported it via NFS. It now boots over the network just like before, but stops working before I can really use it. If I start with runlevel 1, that works just fine; then I can enable sshd and remotely log into the machine, run graphical apps on my laptop, etc. Runlevel 3 starts up and, at the moment the login prompt is displayed, the workstation stops responding to pings; typing a username locks up that terminal, but I can still switch terminals with ctrl+alt+function. Runlevel 5 starts up and apparently crashes when starting X. It stops responding to pings at the same point and the screen goes black. I can't tell if it actually switched video modes or not.
Confused? The relevant configs will help. Here are the commands I use for booting the workstation: this is just a 4 gig USB thumb drive with GRUB2 + kernel + initrd (generated with network support by dracut): root (hd0,1) linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-96-fc11-x86_64 root=nfs:192.168.0.72:/media/Fedora-11-x86_64,rw #(and a runlevel) initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.30.9-96-fc11-x86_64.netboot.img boot On the server (192.168.0.72 aka 'ranty') here is /media/Fedora-11-x86_64/etc/fstab: # # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Mon Nov 9 21:47:13 2009 192.168.0.72:/media/Fedora-11-x86_64 / nfs rw 0 0 192.168.0.72:/home /home nfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 #devpts options modified by setup update to fix #515521 ugly way sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 On the server (ranty) here is /etc/exports: /home 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash,tcp) /media/Fedora-11-x86_64 192.168.0.0/255.255.0.0(rw,sync,no_root_squash,tcp) I feel like I'm really close to getting this to work and I spent an hour online with someone in #dracut who helped me get to this point; I know this isn't strictly LTSP but it seems like a related problem, remote booting; does anyone here know what I need to do to make it really work? Thanks, David Nielson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _____________________________________________________________________ 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
