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

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 02:25, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 20:43, Nick Rout wrote:
> > Hi there, i finally got the gentoo ebuild of pxes to work and ran
> > pxesconfig.
> 
> There's no need to mention Gentoo unless you think this is a
> Gentoo-specific problem, in which case you should be posting a bug at
> bugs.gentoo.org and assigning it to the maintainer (me) to look at.

Hi Chris, I sure recognise your name from the gentoo-dev list :-). I
wasn't sure where the problem was coming from and simply offered as much
possibly relevant info as possible. 


> 
> > 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.
> 
> Were there any errors during the creation of the initrd?

there were the first few times. I ran pxesconfig a few times until it
finished with no errors then tried to boot from the remote machine.

I am unsure where the iniital initrd is built from. I can see it is
built in /tmp/pxes, but where is /tmp/pxes populated from on a fresh
install?

> 
> > 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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