Re: [Ltsp-discuss] root mount problems

2003-09-30 Thread Don Burns
Ah... another kernel argument. init=/linuxrc . I was wondering what magic was making linuxrc run even though I was not adding that command line argument. Ok.. I'm getting further. I'm not carefully setting the kernel arguments to be just as they are in the pxelinux.cfg/default file: ini

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] root mount problems

2003-09-30 Thread Don Burns
So, it occurs to me that I'm trying to beat this with the wrong hammer. Do you have any clues as to why I couldn't get PXELINUX to work? Perhaps that would behave a bit better than using pxe. -don On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Don Burns wrote: > > > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] root mount problems

2003-09-30 Thread Don Burns
I see my problem. Since I am using pxe instead of PXELINUX, the kernel argument root=/dev/ram0 was not being passed to the kernel. So, I started with a fresh initrd from the ltsp distribution and set pxe to provide this argument. First hiccup is again the usage message from init (there is, by

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] root mount problems

2003-09-30 Thread jam
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Don Burns wrote: > > I see my problem. Since I am using pxe instead of PXELINUX, the kernel > argument root=/dev/ram0 was not being passed to the kernel. So, I started > with a fresh initrd from the ltsp distribution and set pxe to provide this > argument. First hiccup i

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] root mount problems

2003-09-30 Thread jam
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Don Burns wrote: > > > Hi Jim, > > Thanks for the response... > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Don Burns wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi ltsp list. > > > > > > I'm back after a year or so, working on a new configuration of diskless

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] root mount problems

2003-09-30 Thread Don Burns
Sorry, the line in the previous email that read: echo "This is a test" /tmp/dummy Should have been echo "This is a test" > /tmp/dummy -don On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Don Burns wrote: > > > Hi Jim, > > Thanks for the response... > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] root mount problems

2003-09-30 Thread Don Burns
Hi Jim, Thanks for the response... On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Don Burns wrote: > > > > > Hi ltsp list. > > > > I'm back after a year or so, working on a new configuration of diskless > > clients. I've noticed a few things have changed and I am als

Re: [Ltsp-discuss] root mount problems

2003-09-30 Thread jam
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Don Burns wrote: > > Hi ltsp list. > > I'm back after a year or so, working on a new configuration of diskless > clients. I've noticed a few things have changed and I am also trying to > clean the cobwebs from my memory on how this stuff all works. Some help > would be

[Ltsp-discuss] root mount problems

2003-09-29 Thread Don Burns
Hi ltsp list. I'm back after a year or so, working on a new configuration of diskless clients. I've noticed a few things have changed and I am also trying to clean the cobwebs from my memory on how this stuff all works. Some help would be appreciated. My diskless client is an ASUS A7N8X n