[mythtv-users] Semi-OT - Netboot a mythfrontend?

Joel Anderson bitjunkie at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 18:46:00 UTC 2004


> > >Its actually not too difficult if you follow Red Hat's docs. They're
> >
> > for
> >
> > >RHEL3, but it works for FC2, just sub system-config-netboot for
> > >redhat-config-netboot.
> > >
> > >http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-3-Manual/sysadmin->guid
> > >e/ch-diskless.html
> > >
> > >Only thing they're missing is that the client install MUST have the
> > >busybox-anaconda package on it, or it'll never boot. On the down side,
> >
> > this
> >
> > >procedure requires a hard drive onto which you'd do the initial
> > >installation...
> >
> > Jarod,
> >
> > Thanks for those pointers.  I had the client made up from the
> > system-config-netboot point in about an hour.  I've almost got this
> > dumb netbooting pc working (I think).  When the client tried to load,
> > it got along pretty far until I hit this:
> >
> > kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel
> >
> > I went over to busybox and googled with no fix.  I've tried passing
> > init=/bin/sh in the kernel with no luck.  What am I missing?
> 
> Do you have the busybox-anaconda package installed in the netboot image? I
> thought that was the error message I got when that package was missing in the
> image, as it is used to call linuxrc (you might also try init=/linuxrc, I
> believe that's what it actually ends up being, but you shouldn't need to
> specify it).
> 
> # chroot /path/to/netboot/image/root/
> # rpm -q busybox-anaconda
> 
> If that's not it, I dunno, my memory is a tad bit foggy right now (haven't
> felt great the past few days, and its been a while since I set up a netboot
> system).

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to get this working as well, and just came across this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135411

-- 
Joel


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