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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I know that this may not be the appropriate forum for this
problem, but I am hoping the someone here has had a similar problem as I am
getting nowhere fast with other lists and google searches.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Here we go.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>I am using<br>
<br>
FC5 2.6.20 x86_64<br>
the machine is running<br>
tftpserver 41-1.2.1<br>
dhcp 11:3.0.3-28<br>
system-config-netboot 1.40-1.FC5<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Mythtv 0.20-154<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>The above is my backend
and I am trying to setup a diskless workstation to use as a frontend.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>On the backend I:<br>
<br>
Followed the system-config-netboot docs at
/usr/share/doc/system-config-netboot-1.40-1 using seciton 2 of this document
steps 1-6<br>
<br>
For my setup machine I installed vmware server 1.02 on the above box and then
setup a FC5 vm from cd iso with text install and no additional packages. Post
install I used yum to update and then group install X Desktop Enviroment and
KDE (K Desktop Environment) and MythtvFrontend.<br>
<br>
After following the docs above I booted the remote machine (Celeron D 2.88 1G
RAM no drives) The pxe boot and kernel load goes fine until the following error
occurs:<br>
<br>
RAMDIKSK: Compressed image found at block 0<br>
EXT2-fs: blocksize too small for device<br>
attempt to access beyond end of device<br>
ram0: rw=0, want=18446744056529682440, limit=44184<br>
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=ram0, iso_blknum=17, block=2147483648<br>
No filesystem could mount root, tried: ext2 iso9660<br>
Kernel panic - not synching: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(1,0)<br>
<br>
I don't get why so many blocks (18 pentillion???) are being requested. I don't
think dhcp/tftp is the culprit as I am getting the kernel. Could it be that I
used vmware as the base for creating the base image used by netboot on the
remote machine?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>BTW, I used the vmlinuz
and initrd.img from the Fedora Core 5 dvd and was able to load that with no
problem using the same setup.<br>
<br>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 color=black face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>Again, I know I am way
off topic here, but if you have any ideas, let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'><br>
thanks<br>
don<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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