Thin client problem
Phyo W. Soe
ps at michelangelotech.com
Fri Jan 19 19:37:20 GMT 2007
Hi all,
I am a newbie to Ubuntu and I am trying to boot up a thin client using
PXE and ltsp. Using Edubuntu 6.10 on the server, I set up the dhcp and
tftp servers and make the tftp boot dir to be /opt/ltsp. When I switched
on the client, it got an IP address (I tried both static and dynamic
addresses) and vmlinuz and initrd loaded into the memory. That booting
process goes on and I see messages like "EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0"
and "Using IPI Shortcut mode" along the process. After those, I see
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...
Begin: loading essential drivers ... ...
[...] Capability LSM initialized
Done
Begin: Running /scripts/init-premount ...
....
Done.
Begin: Mounting root file system ... ...
/init: init:125: divide by zero
[...] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
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and then the client hangs and I have to pull out the power cable to
restart it. I tried with a real thin client and a fat client with PXE
enabled and got same results. I tried modifying/adding some parameters
in lts.conf (as well as running with the original lts.conf) but it
didn't make any difference. I also tried different config options for
pxelinux.cfg/default file under. My current pxelinux.cfg/default file
looks like this: (my tftp boot dir is /opt/ltsp)
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DEFAULT Ubuntu
label Ubuntu
kernel i386/boot/vmlinuz
append init=i386/usr/share/discover/linuxrc rw root=i386/dev/ram
initrd=i386/boot/initrd.img
prompt 1
timeout 20
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My current lts.conf looks like this:
[default]
SERVER=192.168.0.254
X_MOUSE_PROTOCOL="PS/2"
X_MOUSE_DEVICE="/dev/psaux"
X_COLOR_DEPTH=16
XkbLayout="us"
RUNLEVEL=5
LOCALDEV=True
SOUND=N
NBD_SWAP=True
SYSLOG_HOST=SERVER
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Do any of you have any idea where that error "/init: init:125: divide by
zero" comes from? I don't know why the root system mounting failed.
Thanks for any help.
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