[K12OSN] Compaq T5000 booting problem

mikko.jordman at edu.vantaa.fi mikko.jordman at edu.vantaa.fi
Thu Sep 7 13:10:15 UTC 2006


Thank you!
mikkoj

quote> I had the same problem with my HP 5000 series.  The solution was to
> downgrade to an old kernel for the thin clients.  Eric Harrison sent
> me a link to the old kernel that works, I'll go dig it up....
>
> ftp://k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us/pub/K12LTSP/testing/old-kernel/
> ltsp_i386-boot-2.6.16-2.k12ltsp.5.0.0.i386.rpm
>
>
> I had to do something like rpm -e --nodeps ltsp_i386-boot
> then rpm -hiv ltsp_i386-boot-2.6.16-2.k12ltsp.5.0.0.i386.rpm
>
> Then the clients booted right up.
>
> Eric also had me try an updated kernel, but it didn't do the trick,
> so I'm still using the old one.  The thread was from a couple weeks
> ago, the subject was "New HP clients kernel panic..." feel free to
> search for it for more information.
>
> -Shawn
>
> On Sep 7, 2006, at 3:54 AM, Mikko Jordman wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> Need some help. I hope this is an easy one for you :)
>>
>>
>> My old Pc-clients are booting just alright.
>> T5000-clients were booting ok with K12LTSP 4.4. but now with 5.0.0 :
>> Client starts to boot, but I get this:
>>
>> Running /linuxrc
>> Mounting /proc
>> linuxrc: Installing via-rhine driver
>> Modprobe via-rhine
>> ?nsmod /lib/modules/2.6.17.3-ltsp-1/kernel/drivers/net/via-rhine.ko
>> via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.2.0-2.6 June-10-2004 Written by Donald Becker
>> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
>> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 11
>> (level, low) -> IRQ
>> 11
>> eth0:VIA Rhine II at 0x1e400, 00:16:35:7d:84:04, IRQ 11
>> eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1
>> Link 45e1.
>> running dhcpd on port 67
>> eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
>>
>> ERROR: dhcpd failed!
>>
>> Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init
>>
>> (?= don't know the character, cannot see it. Hopefully not many
>> typos here)
>>
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> mikkoj
>>
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