On Saturday 25 August 2007 03:07:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have a very non-urgent problem with one of my thin clients. It's a > > P2 233 MHz machine with 160 MB of RAM. It works fine on LTSP 4.2, > > but doesn't boot on LTSP 5. It gets to a point where it the screen > > says something about initrd, then it reboots itself. I can't read > > the messages completely because it goes by so fast. > > > > Any idea where I should start looking? I successfully booted a P4 > > laptop off of this same server as a test. I've only attempted to > > boot these 2 machines so far. > > > > -Rob > > I have sadly no solution yet to this problem, but I see the same thing > with two different machine types, one type just stops at the point > right after the initrd stuff, the other type just reboots at that > point. > > The serverfarm has about 200 clients, 6-7 types of machines, and these > two types that give me this trouble is about 15 in number, old > 133Mhz/233Mhz machines but with plenty of ram. > > My solution for these 15 machines is to continue to boot them as ltsp4-2 > machines, the rest boots and works just fine as ltsp5 clients.
No doubt that this is due to the kernel not supporting the old processors. Ummm I've not seen any *old processor* kernels in ubuntu ?? <nightmare> So compile a kernel that is for (say) i386 use that for the TCs. I've built a kernel deb, it was much harder than building a vanilla kernel AND all the splash stuff is (was when I did) not documented. </nightmare> Here is some help http://tigger.ws/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu#A_new_kernel James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _____________________________________________________________________ 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
