Am Mittwoch, 3. M�rz 2004 22:03 schrieb John Lange: > I'm trying to boot my laptop as a thin client. I downloaded the wireless > ltsp material and the machine is booting from the floppy. > > The problem I'm having is that I'm running my ltsp dhcp server on a > non-standard port (1067). I tried changing the syslinux.cfg to read: > > append initrd=initrd.img init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 vga=773 > dport=1067 > > But to no avail. It actually hard-locks my laptop forcing me to get out > a pen and poke the little reset button. > > How do I pass the dport option to the kernel? Second, can someone please > tell me where I could have found that information myself? How do you > know what options the kernel will accept on the "append" line? I've > always wondered this...
Hint: In kernel sources, there is a directory "Documentation" which contains lots of helpful files. IIRC one is called "kernel-parameters.txt".... The DPORT stuff is an extension, it is *not* handled by the kernel but by the ltsp initrd scripts which can read out the full commandline from /proc/ cmdline and interpret e.g. the DPORT param. In your place, I'd try capitalizing (e.g. "DPORT=1067" instead of "dport=1067") as it seems to be capitalized in all places I found (OK, I didn't search too much, but worth a try!). The way you did it seems right, so it probably is some picky small error that keeps it from functioning. BTW you can always check wether any dhcp request is received by the server by monitoring the appropriate logfiles, for Debian, you'd tail -f /var/log/syslog or tail -f /var/log/daemon.log and then fire up the client machine, then lines like DHCPREQ from fo:om:ac:hi:ne should appear. HTH Anselm ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
