pxes 0.8 (gentoo) problem - cannot open initial console - cannot mount devfs

Hi there, i finally got the gentoo ebuild of pxes to work and ran
pxesconfig.

Now when i boot the terminal (compaq PIII 650, 128M RAM, nvidia pci card)
it boots but part way through it freezes up and says something along the
lines:

cannot mount devfs error -2

then two lines later

cannot open initial console

which seems unsurprising if it cannot mount devfs. I am using the
standard kernel supplied with pxes 0.8 ( vmlinuz-2.4.20-10pxes.i586).
The initrd was generated by pxesconfig.

I am booting from etherboot on a floppy rather than pxe, as pxe doesn't
seem to handle the tftp server being on a different box to the dhcp
server. etherboot loads nbgrub, and grub has the command lines in its
menu:

 kernel /pxes/vmlinuz-2.4.20-10pxes.i586 ro root=/dev/ram sd=ask ramdisk_size=65535
        initrd /pxes/pxes-0.8.initrd


Any clues on where to from here?

-- 
Nick Rout <[email protected]>



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