[K12OSN] Problems loading Kernel on new install

[Steve]

So as I mentioned, I see my laptop hardware being detected, scsi, ata, 
sr0,sd, etc.
I dont see any nic, should I ?

I also used some dracut nfs syntax in pxelinux.cfg/default to try to 
point it to the chroot
root=172.31.100.254:/opt/ltsp/i386,ro

dracut warning on client No root device "nfs" found

at dracut#  I ran ip addr show
and I get 1: lo: .....
only the loopback , no other interface. I tried /sbin/ifup/etho   but 
not found

Is it possible I dont have the correct drivers in the ramdisk for 2 diff 
generations of jammins and
the dell inspiron, or am I barking up the wrong tree ??


On 10/27/2011 08:33 AM, Steve wrote:
> 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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