[K12OSN] Problems with a kernel, new to the list :)

[EDULIX]

Hi people, 

My Presentation:

I'm Eduardo Robles Elvira, aka Edulix, and I'm installing a K12LTSP 4.0 system in the Official Language School (O.L.S. among you and me) of Chiclana, in the south of Spain (near Gibraltar, we're South of Europe!), where the goverment wants Linux, and encourage to every one to be at least linux-compatible and specially to official entities. In the OLS they thought that the best way was to use linux.

I'm only a young student of 4º level of English there, and they've purpposed to me to migrate them linux, and I'll be paid as the teacher of a course of Linux that the goverment financed by the Andalusia's  government (the OLS people apparently can't spent $$ on me directly, they don't have a shit).

The problem:

I'm testing and learning at home what exactly to do in the OLS, using 2 pcs of mine, a server and a terminal.

I've been able to boot the terminal, which is a Dell Inspiron 4150 laptop sucessfully with KDE 3.2 (I've installed it) and sound (NAS, thanks to mistik1 in the #ltsp irc.freenode.net chanel, as far as I can remember), and used the lpp kernel.

The only other big thing I _really_ need in order to install the real server in the OLS is to access to local (terminal) CDROM drive, in the terminal, of course.

Luckily, in #ltsp, frame (thanks!) told me that he is developing a tutorial to use supermount and usbmgr in order to access to local drives.

Here it's the link ttp://smtp.active.ee/download/ltsp4_lda_v0.2.tar.gz
with the howto and some needed files.

I've adapted the howto to my purposes, so I've omited all about usbmgr (I don't need access to local usb devices, only to local CDROM and perhaps local HD). I haven't compiled the terminals kernel, since the tar file comes with the one necessary, so I've put it and the modules in their respectives locations, of course..

Then, all seems to be right, damn right. I boot the laptop via pxe. The kernel image is downloaded by network and... then I get a "funny" screen, full of strange colored characters, some of them blinking. If I try to reboot, exactly the same screen, the same characters, with the same colors and background colors in the same position are displayed!

I don't know what could be the problem. Maybe it's the harware or soemthing ? should I watch at some log (don't know which) or something ? Please, help me :).


Regards and apologise my bad english,
     Edulix.