[K12OSN] Booting a Client
Petre Scheie
petre at maltzen.net
Fri Jun 23 20:24:57 UTC 2006
Forgot to include my footnote about /etc/dhcpd.conf. In version 5 it has a slightly
different name, dhcpd-k12ltsp.conf.
Petre Scheie wrote:
> mvl.1 at newulmtel.net wrote:
>> Sorry if this is a duplication - not sure if it was sent.
>>
>> I have a new installation of K12LTSP. Some clients boot normally; One set
>> of identical machines (about 20) terminate the boot with "Fatal server
>> error: no screens found."
>>
> What version of K12LTSP are you running? The 4.4.1 or the 5.0 (beta)?
> Look in /etc/k12ltsp-release if you're not sure.
>
> Just guessing here, but it sounds like it's not able to properly detect
> the video card/chipset in those clients. Get the MAC address of one of
> the clients in question, add it to the /etc/dhcpd.conf* file like so:
>
> host problem {
> hardware ethernet 00:90:27:b6:b9:15;
> }
>
> but use the MAC address of the client instead of the number I used. If
> you look toward the bottom of the file, you'll see other examples. What
> you're doing here is just assigning a name to the client so it's easier
> to configure what X server it loads. After you've made the above change,
> restart the DHCP server ('service dhcpd restart'). Then add this to the
> /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf file:
>
> [problem]
> XSERVER = vesa
>
> Add this to the bottom of the file; there are other examples there,
> too. After that, reboot your client and see what you get. What you've
> done is told the system that the client with MAC address
> 00:90:27:b6:b9:15 and known by the name 'problem' should have the vesa X
> server loaded, rather than trying to auto configure it. HTH
>
> Petre
>
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