[svlug] Diskless remote-booting(LTSP) and PXE

[Byunghwan Lim]

Mr. Schoen
Thank you for the reply.
It really make sense to me.
After, I posted my question, I was suspicious about the
kernel compiling. I re-compiled with diffrent configuration.
Now, It worked !!! what the .....
I had this problem 1 week. I'm sorry to everybody.

Our system is headless system, no floppy, no HDD, no mouse...
It downloaded kernel and mount it through NFS.

One more question is, when I mount RAM disk as root filesystem,
should I use rdev too ? Is rdev only for floppy ?

Thank you all


>From: Seth David Schoen <schoen at loyalty.org>
>To: svlug at lists.svlug.org
>Subject: Re: [svlug] Diskless remote-booting(LTSP) and PXE
>Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 06:18:54 -0800
>
>Byunghwan Lim writes:
>
> > Hi all
> > Could somebody tell me what is the problem with the following
> > message ?
> >
> > Server: RedHat 6.2, DHCPD and everything needed for LTSP and
> >         PXE(bpbatch)
> > Client: PXE 2.0, bpbatch, EtherExpress 100 on-board NIC
> >         On-board Adaptec AIC7899, SuperMicro B/D
> >
> > I'm following document of LTSP and PXE by Adrian Likins
> > http://people.redhat.com/alikins/ltsp/
> > Using LTSP, the client floppy bootup and works just fine.
> > But, for the Remote-boot, it shows the following at the
> > end of the kernel decompression.
> >
> > =========================================================
> > ........
> > eepro.c: $Revisioin...
> > Intel Universal NIC driver. PXE 2.0 Beta 2 (Build 002)
> > Copyright(c)...
> > PXE: Could not fine the !PXE structure
> >
> > Sending BOOTP and RARP request... OK
> > IP-Config: Got BOOTP answer from 192.168.0.254,
> > my address is 192.168.0.1
> > md.c: sizeof(madp_super_t): 4096
> > Partition check:
> >     NTFS version 990411
> > request_module[block_major-3]: Root fs not mounted
> >
> > VFS: Cannot open root device 03:02
> > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:02
> >
> > ==================================================
>
>You're missing the IDE module in your kernel (if you're trying to mount the
>root filesystem from an IDE hard drive); or you haven't used rdev or 
>otherwise
>configured your kernel to mount a RAM disk as root, if you're trying to 
>mount
>the root filesystem from a RAM disk.
>
>The panic indicated that the kernel is trying and failing to mount 
>/dev/hda2
>(block major 3 minor 2) as root.
>
>This could also fail because you don't have a module for whatever kind of
>filesystem is on /dev/hda2, as opposed to not having the IDE module.
>
>--
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