Hi Alkis: Thanks for your prompt reply. I will indeed try the freenode link. However, here is the current situation: 1) The rootserver was already 192.168.0.1 2) and so was the nbdserver; it was exactly like your text! 3) For completeness sake, I retyped the bootmessages on the client for so far they did not roll away. Here they are: --------------------- . . . Loading vmlinuz............................... Loading initrd.img............................ready [ 5.821127] IO APIC resources could not be allocated. Loading, please wait... IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:50:ba:5e:79:4c mtu 1500 DHCP RARP IP-Config: eth0 complete (from 192.168.0.1): address: 192.168.0.21 broadcast: 192.168.0.255 netmask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 192.168.0.1 dns0 : 192.168.0.1 dns1 : 0.0.0.0 domain : example.com rootserver: 192.168.0.1 rootpath: /opt/ltsp/i386 filename : /ltsp/i386/nbi.img Error: Connect: Connection refused mount: mounting /rofs on /root/rofs failed: Invalid argument mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /sys on /root/sys failed: No such file or directory mount: mounting /proc on /root/proc failed: No such file or directory Target filesystem doesn't have /sbin/init No init found. Try passing init= bootarg.
Busybox v1.10.2 ...etc... (initramfs) ---------------------------------------------------- 4) Note: I observed that the 192.168.0.21 address matched the inet address on the client (ifconfig on BusyBox). It probably was internally configured. 5) The key to the final solution may well be in the last two boot messages: "No init found" Do you have an idea about that? I also perused all the log files on the server. But, with my layman's knowledge, nothing specific jumped at me -- - anyway that may have been the wrong place to look. Would BusyBox be useful for troubleshooting? Thanks again, Jack Alkis Georgopoulos wrote: > Hi Jack, > > no need for chatzilla, pointing your browser to > http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ltsp gets you directly to the chat > room (javascript-based). But as you said, you made great progress, so it > might not be necessary. Now your tftp server and your dhcp3-server are > (mostly?) working... > > >> IP-Config: eth0 complete (from 192.168.0.1) ... rootserver ... >> > > What is the rootserver ip in that exact line? It should be the same as > your LTSP server, i.e. 192.168.0.1. > > If it is, then maybe your also changed the configuration file for your nbd > server. :( > See how it's supposed to be: > > alk...@alkis:~$ grep nbd /etc/inetd.conf > 9572 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/nbdswapd > 2000 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd > /usr/sbin/nbdrootd /opt/ltsp/images/i386.img > > -- LTSP on top of Ubuntu 8.10 desktop does not boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316217 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs