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

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 26 November 2004 06:31, PAUL WILLIAMSON 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->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).

-- 
Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
jcw at wilsonet.com

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