Carrie,
just use straight ltsp 3.0, it works right away, no special setup
is necessary, unless you use el cheapo 15' monitors - then set video mode
to 800x600. i use only thinnics for terminals and they all boot just fine,
starting from ltsp 3.0.x. good luck, julius
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Carrie Coy wrote:
> I'm trying out a ThinkNIC and I've used John Robertson's very helpful
> ThinkNIC HOWTO to set it up. I've used his vmlinuz.thinknic kernel and
> pxelinux.* files from the sourceforge download.
>
> I'm stuck where the root file system is NFS-mounted. This is what
> appears on the ThinkNIC screen:
>
> IP-Config: Complete:
> device=eth0, addr=192.168.36.1, mask=255.255.255.0,
> gw=192.168.36.18,
> host=ws001, domain=ssww.com, nis-domain=(none),
> bootserver=192.168.36.18, rootserver=192.168.36.18,
> rootpath=/opt/ltsp/i386
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux Net4.0
> Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.36.18
> Looking up port of RPC 100005/2 on 192.168.36.18
> VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 72k freed
> Warning: unable to open an initial console.
> nfs: server 192.168.36.18 not responding, still trying
> nfs: server 192.168.36.18 OK
>
> The final two lines cycle indefinitely . The last thing I see in
> /var/log/messages before my ThinkNIC get stuck is:
>
> Feb 13 16:18:36 thincity rpc.mountd: authenticated mount request from
> 192.168.36.1:800 for /opt/ltsp/i386 (/opt/ltsp/i386)
>
> I've read messages in the archives suggesting "Unable to open an initial
> console" may be related to an incorrect root-path, but I *think* mine is
> okay. I have other (non PXE) clients that can boot with no trouble.
> The problem is something particular to the ThinkNIC.
>
> I did have "permission denied" troubles before I adjusted the nfsroot in
> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file to read:
>
> prompt=0
> label linux
> kernel vmlinuz.thinknic
> append root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.36.18:/opt/ltsp/i386 ip=dhcp
>
> Any suggestions on where I can look for the problem?
>
> Many thanks,
> Carrie Coy
>
>
>
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