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

[Ken Stam]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 13:46:00 -0500, Joel Anderson <bitjunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > >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
> >

I can confirm that I do have busybox-anaconda on the netboot image,
still no go though.


> > 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).
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to get this working as well, and just came across this:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=135411
> 

I may just watch this thread for a while, but in the meantime I put
the HD back in my frontend as my family said 2 days without it was too
much.  I wanted to do this to try to keep heat/noise down, so may just
go the laptop drive route.

I'd like to stick to Fedora, so won't go the Debian or Gentoo route,
just easier on me to stay with the same distro.

> --
> Joel
> 
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...Ken