[K12OSN] Compaq T5000 booting problem

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Sep 8 14:15:09 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 09:40 +0300, Mikko Jordman wrote:
> Thank you again , works very well!
> 
> How about updating now, can I update with yum (-y update)?

yum -y --exclude=ltsp_i386-boot update

That _should_ do the update but not update the thin client kernel setup.

> 
> regards,
> mikkoj
> 
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> 
> 
> Shawn Powers kirjoitti:
> > I had the same problem with my HP 5000 series.  The solution was to 
> > downgrade to an old kernel for the thin clients.  Eric Harrison sent 
> > me a link to the old kernel that works, I'll go dig it up....
> >
> > ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/old-kernel/ltsp_i386-boot-2.6.16-2.k12ltsp.5.0.0.i386.rpm 
> >
> >
> >
> > I had to do something like rpm -e --nodeps ltsp_i386-boot
> > then rpm -hiv ltsp_i386-boot-2.6.16-2.k12ltsp.5.0.0.i386.rpm
> >
> > Then the clients booted right up.
> >
> > Eric also had me try an updated kernel, but it didn't do the trick, so 
> > I'm still using the old one.  The thread was from a couple weeks ago, 
> > the subject was "New HP clients kernel panic..." feel free to search 
> > for it for more information.
> >
> > -Shawn
> >
> > On Sep 7, 2006, at 3:54 AM, Mikko Jordman wrote:
> >
> >> Hi!
> >> Need some help. I hope this is an easy one for you :)
> >>
> >>
> >> My old Pc-clients are booting just alright.
> >> T5000-clients were booting ok with K12LTSP 4.4. but now with 5.0.0 :
> >> Client starts to boot, but I get this:
> >>
> >> Running /linuxrc
> >> Mounting /proc
> >> linuxrc: Installing via-rhine driver
> >> Modprobe via-rhine
> >> ?nsmod /lib/modules/2.6.17.3-ltsp-1/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.ko
> >> via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
> >> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
> >> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11 (level, 
> >> low) -> IRQ
> >> 11
> >> eth0:VIA Rhine II at 0x1e400, 00:16:35:7d:84:04, IRQ 11
> >> eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 
> >> 45e1.
> >> running dhcpd on port 67
> >> eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
> >>
> >> ERROR: dhcpd failed!
> >>
> >> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init
> >>
> >> (?= don't know the character, cannot see it. Hopefully not many typos 
> >> here)
> >>
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >>
> >> mikkoj
> >>
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