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

[Ken Stam]

On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:31:01 -0500, PAUL WILLIAMSON
<pwilliamson at mandtbank.com> wrote:
> >>> jcw at wilsonet.com 11/25/04 12:51 AM >>>
> 
> 
> >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->guide/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
> 

Paul, 

I'm trying to accomplish this as well, and seems fedora has provided
all the tools, but I'm getting the exact same error when booting the
client.  Did you solve this?

Thanks....Ken

> 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?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
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