Matt,

is this with a bootrom or a floppy ?

And, how old is the Etherboot bootrom image ?

One more thing:  What do you have root-path set to in the dhcpd.conf file ?

Thanks,

Jim McQuillan
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Matt Clark wrote:

>  Hi,
> Sometimes you can check and recheck all your settings, but the problem 
> is so obvious you miss it every time.  I am hoping that this is one of 
> those situations, and one of you can point it out to me.  I am getting 
> a ltsp 3.0 server going, and having some trouble with a D-Link ISA nic 
> using the ne driver.  I have tested the system on another terminal 
> that has a PCI nic, and it works fine.  My server is a RH 7.1.
>
> Here is a copy of the DHCP file that pertains to this system
>
>    host speeder8 {
>        hardware ethernet     00:80:C8:19:EA:B6;
>        fixed-address         192.168.1.8;
>     option option-128    e4:45:74:68:00:00;
>     option option-129    "NIC=ne IO=0x300";
>     filename        "/lts/vmlinuz-2.4.9-ltsp-5";
>         }
>
> Booting fails with a Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
>
> Leading up to that we have
> RAMDISK driver initialize: ...
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, ...
> IP: routing cache table ...
> TCP: Hash tables configured
> NET4: Unix domain sockets ...
> VFS: Cannot open root device "ram0" or 01:00
> Please append correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic...
>
> Now, since everything works on a test machine, I know that the system 
> is configured properly, no tcpwrappr problems or something like that. 
> It must be with this individual workstation settings, and mostlikely 
> the NIC driver.  I have confirmed the IO and IRQ settings, so what 
> else could it be?
>
> thanks in advance,
> mattc        
>
>
>
>
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