[K12OSN] Problems loading Kernel on new install

[Steve]

actually I have .. eventually

I noticed you made a notation that there were bugs with CentOS6, so I 
went and installed a fresh copy of SL6.1

I followed the instructions to setup the EL6 root. I only have a single 
nic in the box I'm using as a server, Dell precision T3500,
but set it up to act like the second nic, the TC network nic. set the 
interface to include the bridge statement as per instruction.

I'm using the stock /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf and 
/var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/lts.conf files. I'm using ltsp-dhcpd on standard 
port 67. Im using the default
172. address scheme.

I was going thru a managed switch, but now have my one year old Dell 
inspiron laptop connected directly to the server and pxe boot.

It will find the server, get an address in the range given in 
dhcpd.conf. It will load the kernel.ie; "dracut: Starting Plymouth 
daemon", then  see
about 50 lines of my laptops hardware detected, but it will not load the 
root.

I get a dracut warning  "No root device "dhcp" found".  I went into 
pxelinux.cfg/default and  added rdshell to the initrd line. I also 
played around with
root line trying some different things to no avail. I also copied the 
root-path statement in the nested if loop and pasted it under the next 
server statement in dhcp.conf
just to be sure its seen.

It seems that I have the same basic problem I was having before. I just, 
for some reason, cannot mount the chroot.
(Almost) All my earlier attempts using the jammins and CentOS6 would end 
with dracut warnings.

There doesnt seem to be any noticeable change at all if I try using nbd. 
( tried with Fedora 11 root. I have both installed, /opt/ltsp/fed11-i386 
and /opt/ltsp/i386 )

I must be doing something fundamentally wrong somewhere, but dont know 
what. Im sitting here at a debug shell plotting my next move.

On 10/27/2011 12:26 AM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote:
> On 10/21/2011 3:48 AM, Steve wrote:
>> After poking around some, I discovered gdm was not configured to allow
>> remote
>> X connections, so I edited custom.conf apropriately, in hope I'll
>> sometime get far enough that
>> it matters.
> Modern LTSP does not use XDMCP so this is not related to your problem.
>
> More likely the Geode GX2 in the Jammin-125 is just too old and broken
> to work with the Fedora 11 kernel.  Did you try modifying the
> /opt/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default file to make it display verbose
> messages?
>
> Warren
>
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