[K12OSN] Problems loading Kernel on new install

Luis Montes monteslu at cox.net
Fri Oct 28 12:25:20 UTC 2011


I've got a bunch of old jammins  (150s?) and some ntavos.  They only 
want to boot up with the F11 chroot.


Warren Togami Jr. wrote:
> On 10/27/2011 12:03 PM, Steve wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/27/2011 12:26 AM, Warren Togami Jr. wrote:
>>> More likely the Geode GX2 in the Jammin-125 is just too old and broken
>>> to work with the Fedora 11 kernel.
>>
>> My main goal is to upgrade my kickstart to CentOS 6 and I need to be
>> able to support many many
>> hundreds of legacy jammins. I originally tried to bolt my existing LTSP
>> solution onto cent 6 but the jammins
>> are having a hard time loading X. they'll ,sometimes, get to a login
>> screen then freeze, if they accept input at all.
>> They seem ok at console.
>>
>> well, looks like the jammin has an RTL8139 nic, pretty well supported I
>> would think. dont think my no nic support
>> in EL6 kernel theory holds water.
>
> SL6 kernel will not support the Jammin's.  F11 *maybe*.
>
> Your best bet might be to install a very old LTSPv4 and grab its 
> /opt/ltsp/i386 and /tftpboot/ files, use that to boot your Jammin's, 
> and have them XDMCP into the server.  That will require modifying the 
> gdm configuration manually.  I think this means you wont have sound or 
> remote USB storage.
>
> Warren
>
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