ltsp-vmclient broken in rawhide

[Sander Hoentjen]

On Tue, 2009-04-14 at 13:47 -0700, Dan Young wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Ryan Niebur <ryanryan52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:05:50AM -0700, Dan Young wrote:
> >> ltsp-vmclient is broken in rawhide because of this:
> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=494541
> >>
> >> Switching to the rtl8139 driver the initial PXE boot works, but it
> >> hangs later in the boot.
> >>
> >
> > ah, thanks for pointing that out, that helps me.
> >
> > Does it hang at the point when it's trying to download the kernel 'n
> > stuff over tftp?
> > "Loading ip.ip.ip.ip:/ltsp/i386/elf.ltsp ......"?
> 
> The kernel seems to download OK.
> 
> I just see the plymouth crawl for a split-second then nothing.
> Twiddling /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default doesn't
> seem to have an effect (i.e. no rhgb).

I see the same thing on real hardware. I did find that i get the
following when running ltsp-build-client:

  Installing: kernel                       #####################
[312/410] 
/etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd: line 13: syntax error near unexpected token
`else'
/etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd: line 13: `else'
WARNING: /dev/root is a not a block device, skipping

after editing /etc/ltsp/mkinitrd/sysconfig-mkinitrd (adding then on the
end of line 13) this message disappears, but i still can't boot further
then the brief plymouth display.