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

Thank you that worked.

Now my understanding _was_ that the initrd file was built by pxeconfig
from the instructions given to the wizard.

When I first ran pxeconfig there was no initrd file in /tftp/pxes. The
wizard suggested a name and I went with it. It seemed to build an initrd
file with the suggested name... but as we have seen that didn't work.

So what am i doing wrong?

Sorry to be so thick. 


On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:19, Diego Torres Milano wrote:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pxes/pxes-0.8-9PB.initrd?download
> 
> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 00:47, Nick Rout wrote:
> > do you mean a pre-built initrd image? where do i find them?
> > 
> > On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 00:11:40 -0300
> > Diego Torres Milano <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > To check that everything else is working try a Pre-Built image first.
> > > On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 21:43, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > > 
> > > 
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