[K12OSN] New HP clients kernel panic...

[Eric Harrison]

Shawn Powers wrote:
> Could someone point me to where I would download a different kernel for
> these thin clients (to try?), along with how to make the clients use the
> older kernel?  If I can't get them to boot, I'm going to have to install
> an old version of K12LTSP, and that would be a bummer.
> 
> Sorry to ask for help at this terribly busy time of year,
> -Shawn


Here you go:

ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/old-kernel/ltsp_i386-boot-2.6.16-2.k12ltsp.5.0.0.i386.rpm


-Eric

> 
> On Aug 22, 2006, at 9:22 PM, Shawn Powers wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 22, 2006, at 3:53 PM, James P. Kinney III wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I don't see the error anywhere in the logs (I'm not sure where to look
>> other than /var/log/messages).  The only non-standard thing on the
>> server install is that I switched eth0 and eth1 around from what the
>> installer did by default.  (ie, I made eth0 public and eth1 private). 
>> I didn't find anything else to change in the config files regarding
>> eth0 or eth1, and other clients boot fine.  Perhaps there is something
>> I should change?
>>
>> (On older versions I would have to tell dhcpd what interface to run
>> on, but it's smart in this release and only runs on the interface with
>> IP numbers matching the dhcpd config)
>>
>> I'm really scratching my head with this one...  It booted OK from a
>> 4.0.2 server (although the video card was detected, but that's a minor
>> issue).  I might try installing a server from scratch, and seeing if
>> it boots up tomorrow on the new server.  Reinstalling on the server in
>> question would really be a pain in the butt though...
>>
>> -Shawn
>>
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> -- 
> Shawn Powers
> Technology Director
> Inland Lakes Schools
> PHN: 231-238-6868 x9174
> FAX: 509-356-7024
> spowers at inlandlakes.org
> Homepage: http://techcorner.inlandlakes.org
> Personal Website: http://www.brainofshawn.com
> 
> --<Disclaimer, now required for frustrating reasons>--
> The views, opinions, visions, thoughts, comments,
> sarcastic whims, forecasts, poetic outbursts,
> cynical wit, future plans, implementation ideas,
> OS preference, curricular insight, ice cream preference,
> or anything else I might infer are not the
> views of Inland Lakes Schools.  Pretty much everything
> I say, do, think, or imply with punctuation should be
> considered my own delusions, and ignored completely.
> 
> 
>