Thin client works!

[Jan Moren]

mån 2006-06-12 klockan 16:37 +0100 skrev Daniel Carrera:
> Hey,
> 
> Finally the thin client works. It boots completely. Now this is really 
> weird, the problem was on the *client*. I replaced the entire computer 
> by a different one (but kept the same NIC) and that one boots correctly.
> 
> This is really strange because the clients don't do anything (they are 
> just thin clients). Notice, the problem is not the NIC because I used 
> the same one on the new machine. It's not the hard disk because that 
> doesn't get touched. What could possibly go wrong on the thin client 
> that would make it not mount the filesystem? That's bewildering.

My first reaction is corrupted (or just flaky) memory. 

One OS (or one variant of an OS) could seemingly work perfectly since
nothing essential ends up in the bad patch, while another borks out
completely since it happens to place something really important there.


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