[K12OSN] Network boot hangs

["Terrell Prudé Jr."]

Ah, interesting...by chance, do you have a Pentium-II thin client to 
try?  Say, an old Pentium II-266MHz?

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Peter Trifonov wrote:
> Terrell,
>
> All Pentium-3 and Pentium-4 clients work perfectly. The problem arises only
> with Pentium-1 ones. 
> Looks like the init executable contains some instructions not available on
> i586. 
>
> With best regards,
> P. Trifonov
>
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On
>> Behalf Of "Terrell Prude Jr."
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 3:15 AM
>> To: Support list for open source software in schools.
>> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Network boot hangs
>>
>> I've seen this happen before, back when something was haywire with my
>> client's NIC; it was one of those gradual failures.  Swapping NIC's did
>> the trick then.  I've also (rarely) seen an NFS misconfig do it; this
>> is rare because it's autoconfig'd during the K12LTSP setup.  I'm
>> assuming here that you've left /etc/dhcpd.conf (or /etc/dhcpd-
>> k12ltsp.conf) at its stock config.
>>
>> Can you try this:  boot a thick client Linux box, try mounting
>> /opt/ltsp/i386 from the LTSP server, and copying everything under there
>> to a test directory on the thick client?
>>
>> Also, do you have another kind of thin client to try out to see if it
>> happens there, too?
>>
>> --TP
>>
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>>
>> Peter Trifonov wrote:
>>
>> 	Rob, thanks a lot for the suggestion. I have tried gPXE, but with
>> the same
>> 	result.
>> 	The problem arises AFTER Linux kernel is downloaded from the
>> server and
>> 	started.
>> 	The kernel says:
>>
>> 	...
>> 	Creating new ramdisk to hold our new rootfs
>> 	Mounting root filesystem: ... from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx [Some NFS
>> traffic is
>> 	observed at the server at this moment]
>> 	Setting up the new root ramdisk area
>> 	Doing the switchroot
>> 	SwitchRoot v0.1 - Copyright 2005 Linux based systems design
>> 	Freeing ram used by initramfs
>>
>>
>> 	After this the system stops doing anything.
>>
>>
>> 	With best regards,
>> 	P. Trifonov
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 		-----Original Message-----
>> 		From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-
>> bounces at redhat.com] On
>> 		Behalf Of Rob Owens
>> 		Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 6:21 PM
>> 		To: Support list for open source software in schools.
>> 		Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Network boot hangs
>>
>> 		I had a similar problem and found that some clients would
>> not boot with
>> 		an etherboot cd, but they would boot with a gPXE cd.  Try
>> that.  You
>> 		can get it from www.rom-o-matic.net.  When it comes to the
>> driver
>> 		selection part, choose gpxe from the drop-down list.
>>
>> 		-Rob
>>
>> 		On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 10:54:44AM +0300, Peter Trifonov
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 			Hello,
>>
>> 			I have installed K12LTSP 5-EL/32 bit onto a server
>>     
> in
>   
>> my network. It
>>
>>
>> 		works
>>
>>
>> 			fine with relatively modern client PCs.
>> 			However, booting 12-year old HP Vectra PCs (Pentium-
>> 200 CPU, 96 MB
>>
>>
>> 		RAM)
>>
>>
>> 			hangs with the words "Freeing ram used by
>>     
> initramfs".
>   
>> 			The system is not really frozen, but nothing
>>     
> happens.
>   
>> I have a few
>>
>>
>> 		such
>>
>>
>> 			PCs, and all of them exhibit such behavior. I have
>> observed some NFS
>>
>>
>> 		traffic
>>
>>
>> 			between the server and the client before it hangs.
>>
>> 			Does anyone have any suggestions what can be wrong
>> with the clients?
>>
>>
>>
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