Hi!

Evan Ingram schrieb:
> Hi all,
> 
> a cleverer person than I set up PXES on a compact flash memory card with
> a compact flash>ide adapter to plug into some machines I had that had no
> onboard pxe enabled network adapters, this was to enable them to use my
> ltsp server. I now want to update my ltsp server from opensuse 9.x to
> ubuntu but some of the settings seem to be hard coded on the memory card
> and I don't know where to start to update them.
> 
> Here's the grub menu.lst:

It's GRUB on the CF card. Very good, as you can boot anything with it.

> 
> default=0
> timeout=3
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Remove splashimage to see what's going on.

> hiddenmenu
> 
> title PXES
>      root (hd0,0)
>      kernel /boot/vmlinuz ramdisk_size=17232 ro root=/dev/ram
> console=null SESSION_DEFAULT=xdm kl=uk xvm="1280x1024" xh=30-83 xv=43-74
> xcd=24
>      initrd /boot/pxes.img

This seems to boot something from the CF card - you don't want that.
Delete it.

> 
> # label linux
> #  kernel nblinux
> 
> title NetBootRom
>        root (hd0,0)
>        kernel /boot/eb-5.4.0-3c90x2.zlilo

This seems to be a network boot client (good), but "eb" sounds like
Etherboot while you want PXE as it's standard for LTSP. Remove it. (Or
try if it works first)

Try to download a gPXE Linux kernel from
http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-0.9.9/contrib/rom-o-matic/
and put it on the CF card, create a entry in GRUB's menu.lst for it
(just like the NetBootRom entry), and try to boot.
Should work or give you some meaningful error message.


> 
> title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1398_FC4)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
> quiet
>         initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4.img

This is useless too, remove.

> 
> 
> ...which seems to be about the only file on the memory card that looks
> like it has some relevant settings.
> 
> Can anyone offer any help? When booting using this config I just get a
> grey background and black X cursor.
> 
> cheers
> 
> 
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