LTSP woes with Lucid Lynx

[Jordan Erickson]

Andrew,

Have you tried removing 'quiet' and 'splash' from your
pxelinux.cfg/default file (and try without 'nomodeset')? I had this
problem initially with 10.04 and this fixed it. I hadn't heard of
'nomodeset' before so I had just taken the two out.

With the NBD lines you'd posted in ubuntuforums, you might want to
consider trying renaming your existing chroot and building a fresh
chroot and seeing if that works. Have you gone through the normal
ltsp-update-kernels and ltsp-update-image with your existing chroot? You
 *did* remove the old chroot all together when you built the new one
after upgrading to 10.04 right?


- Jordan



Andrew wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I am posting this here in the hope that someone may be able to offer
> some suggestions, or, even better, some nuggets of insight, to help me
> out of this hole here I've got myself into ...
> 
> In summary, I've installed ltsp-server-standalone in a fresh install of
> 10.04, built the client environment, and configured dhcp as I would have
> done for 8.04 [which used to work perfectly]. lts.conf and the pxelinux
> boot options are defaulted. My thin clients [old PIIIs with no discs and
> with PXE cards] find the server no problem, download the kernel without
> a hitch, but then blank screen when attempting to boot up. No login
> screen, no splash, no nothing ;-( The keyboard is still 'responsive' [I
> can do Ctrl-Alt-F keys] but other than that I have a totally blank
> screen forever.
> 
> My journey to date is documented here:
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1501761
> 
> I'm not sure what else to try. I could try different XSERVER config
> options in the lts.conf but am not sure why I would need to.
> 
> Suggestions most welcome!! :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Andrew
> 
> 
> 
> 


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