Hi
I have been setting up a LTSP system for booting a ICA Client. In order not to change a lot on our existing dhcp-system I got the suggestion from this list to run the dhcp server on port 1001/1002. I've changed the settings in etherboot to use the ports, compiled it and programmed the rom for my network adapter to a flash prom. Putting this network adapter with the flash-prom mounted into a pc and turning on... The pc finds the dhcp server which of cause also listens/replies on the same ports. I have downloaded the ltsp_initrd_kit, compiled my own kernel and appended the -p 1002 option to the dhclient in the linuxrc file. Build the initrd kernel and copied the kernel to the tftp server. The system works fine most of the times, but sometimes the kernel reports:
:
Running dhclient
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000
printing eip:
c28055c2
:
If I reboot the pc the kernel will eventually go through this point and boot up correctly.
I have tried 2.4.18 and 2.4.19 kernels but no difference. The kernels are fresh kernels from kernel.org without patches of any kind. I have compiled the kernel on redhat 7.3.
Any suggestions on what could cause this problem?
/Thomas
