[K12OSN] New HP clients kernel panic...

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 13:51 -0400, Shawn Powers wrote:
> I have a bunch of HP t5125 thin clients, and for some reason I can't get
> them to boot from my new 5.0.0 server.  Other clients boot fine, but
> partway through the boot process, I get errors.  The server is freshly
> updated.  Here's what I get:

> Error! dhcpd failed!

Check the server logs for this error. Since DHCPD on the server _was_
working enough to send out the initial IP address and then the PXE boot
kernel and then the main kernel. 
> 
> Kernel Panic - Not syncing.  Attempted to kill init!
> 
> 
> The client has a via-rhine network card, and does start to boot via PXE
> quite happily.  Any suggestions, or other places I can look for
> information?

I have about 2100 of these about to get installed (I have tested
functionality on 1 and it worked flawlessly - sound and all) so any
_issues_ I am very interested in :)
> 
> Thanks,
> -Shawn
> 
> 
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