On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 23:07 -0400, Jim McQuillan wrote:
> On Tue, June 6, 2006 6:44 am, Krishna Murphy wrote:
> > Alistair-
> >
> > I have a Geode 1750 processor on a M7VIG-400 motherboard, which has PXE
> > boot options. I had a bit of trouble getting it going. What I had to do,
> > mainly, was set some X parameters for the video. What motherboard/video
> > are you using?
> >
> > -Krishna
> >
> > On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Alistair Crust wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > We have managed to figure out the reason we cannot get a custom ltsp
> > kernel to boot off our wyse winterms. Etherboot support in the kernel!
>
>
> "Etherboot support in the kernel" ????
>
> There's no such thing.
>
> For LTSP, we build the kernel and the initramfs.
>
> For PXE, we place those 2 files in /tftpboot/lts/2.6.16-1-ltsp-2/
>
> For Etherboot, we use the mknbi-linux command to combine them together
> into 1 file and include some extra stuff that Etherboot needs.
>
> This doesn't do anything to the original kernels.
>
> If the Wyse is using PXE to boot, it should be grabbing the kernel and the
> initramfs and using that.
>
> Again... There's no such thing as "Etherboot support in the kernel"
>
> Jim McQuillan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
> > My boss just happened to mention something to me this morning about it
> > so I though I'd see if you guys have any tips/hints about compiling
> > kernels for a geode gx1 without etherboot support and more importantly
> > getting the right initrd so the two can work together in perfect
> > harmony.. maybe even sing a song!
> >
> >
> >
This post does state my boss did the work and happened to mention
something to me in the morning (know what its like in the morning right,
when you've just woke up and not "fully up to speed". That was one of
those days for both of us).
Please see my post "LBE and kernel/initrd" (13:02) this should clear any
further confusion.
for sake of clarity I'll include a snipit here:
"We can boot a kernel but only if it is not tagged for etherboot. The
idea is we will skip the etherboot bit and lump the kernel and initrd
straight onto the CF. However the kernel (2.6.16.1) and an initramfs.gz
from an LTSP 2.6.16.1 install gets as far as looking for the modules
directory in the initial ram disk to load the NIC driver then complains
that it can't find /lib/modules/2.6.16.1/. and this is where we come to
a brick wall. It seems we need an LTSP initramfs.gz that will work with
a non-etherboot tagged kernel."
with this goes a snip from another post my boss made titled
"LTSP_Kernel_kit":
"Can anybody provide a link to download a kernel kit without having to
download the rest of the lbe?
I've tried building on ubuntu (dapper) but the build fails at e2fsprogs,
all stated dependencies are installed. All I am trying to do is to build
a new kernel and initramfs."
The frustrating part is we know we must be stupidly close to getting
this working, but were not quite there yet.
--
Kind regards
Alistair Crust
Systems Administrator
Skegness Grammar School
Vernon Road
Skegness
PE25 2QS
TEL: 01754 610000 (ext'852)
FAX: 01754 896875
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