Etherboot on Ubuntu LTSP

[Jean-Francois CLEMENT]

Hi,

first, why you don't want make PXE emulation ?
Have you look at : 
http://wiki.edubuntu.org/EdubuntuDocumentation/BootingClientsWithoutPxe ?

regards

Jeff.

Jonathan Carter wrote:

>Hi
>
>I'm trying to make etherboot (without PXE emulation) to work in Edubuntu.
>
>I've replaced in dhcpd.conf:
>
>"""
>filename "/ltsp/pxelinux.0";
>"""
>
>with
>
>"""
># trick from Peter Rundle <peter.rundle at au.interpath.net>, borrowed from
>K12LTSP
>if substring (option vendor-class-identifier, 0, 9) = "PXEClient"
>{
>  filename "/ltsp/pxelinux.0";
>}
>else
>{
>  filename "/ltsp/vmlinuz";
>}
>"""
>
>When the etherboot thin client boots, it says that the kernel is an
>invalid image. When I copy the K12LTSP vmlinuz.ltsp to /var/lib/tftpboot
>and change the kernel name to vmlinuz.ltsp in dhcpd.conf, it loads the
>kernel fine.
>
>Any ideas on what could be different between the ubuntu kernel and the
>LTSP.org kernel that could cause the one to work and the other not?
>
>-Jonathan
>
>  
>


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