Re: LTSP compatibility module: cannot find the init.new executable

Use a PXES XDM session instead of an LTSP/K12LTSP one.
And use the SQUASH image to replace initrd (requires half the RAM)

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 15:00, fglezg wrote:
> Hi:
> I'm using a Debian Sarge server to configure PXES 0.9.
> It serves the initrd file with dhcp3 and atftpd. The
> thin clients can easily connect with a Windows 2003
> Terminal Server.
> 
> Now I need one step forward: most of our applications
> need a web browser, and a solution could be using PXES
> (starting up the clients) and LTSP (running the browser).
> 
> After reading some howtos and mailing lists, I get the
> following:
> - All the NICs are PXE compatible.
> 	They boot from pxelinux.0.
> - The server file /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default contains
> 	kernel pxes/vmlinuz-2.4.20-12pxes.i586
> 	append ramdisk_size=16384 rw initrd=pxes/pxes-0.9.initrd
>   I removed the "root=/dev/ram" to avoid
> 	"/dev/ram is not a valid block device"
>   	I also tried "root=/"
> - The initrd generated with pxesconfig contains only the
> 	LTSP/K12LTSP client. The LTSP server is set at build time.
> - LTSP 4.0 is installed.
> 	nfs seems to work (rcpinfo and log messages are ok).
> 
> The problem begins here: when the client boots up, after the
> initializing messages from mice and NIC, two dots appear (..),
> and after the following lines are displayed:
> 
> "umount: /proc Device or resource busy"
> various "/etc/init.d/rcS: 670 : [ not found"
> "Error -w Cannot find the init.new executable"
> "Perhaps you forgot to install the PXES-LTSP package on the server"
> more "[ not found" lines
> "Error -w mounting myserver:/opt/ltsp/i386"
> more "[ not found" lines
> And, until the PC is powered down, lines with
> "Bummer, could not run '/bin/startsession': No such file or directory"
> 
> Since there's no Debian packages for PXES-LTSP, I used the .tar.gz
> from 0.7 version. I copied "init.new" in both
> /opt/pxes-0.9/stock/dist/usr/bin and sbin.
> I also copied "init.new" in "ltsp/i386/usr/bin" and sbin.
> I know that some links are also required, but I don't know exactly
> who they are (something about modules, but I dont know if they must
> be in the "dist" directory or in the "ltsp" directory).
> 
> No luck. The same error messages.
> 
> Then, I analized the /opt/pxes-0.9/stock/dist/etc/init.d/rcS file
> and found that the problematic line was "mount_root $R", in the LTSP
> configuration section.
> 
> I don't know how to fix it up.
> 
> Any idea ?
> Where can I found specific documentation on PXES-LTSP ?
> 
> Thanks
> Felipe.
> 
> 
> 
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