I have a problem with diskless client, nfsroot booted (no initrd).
I have collected the (almost) minimal set of files one needs for diskless boot from the existing Fedora Core 1 instalation (on Pentium IV), and placed in /tftpboot/smallFedora. The nfsroot capable kernel image is also in place. The DHCP, TFTP, ... everything correctly setup.
When I boot a Celeron (Pentium IV class) machine everything is OK. But, booting Pentium I (an old 133 MHz IBM) machine does not work.
What happens is on Pentium I machine is:
- the kernel gets loaded, everything initialized up to the /sbin/init proccess startup.
- /sbin/init gets loaded (I snooped on network), the neccessary "interpreter" /lib/ld-linux.so.2
gets loaded, too (I snooped it on a network).
- but init shows no signs of beeing alive.
- the kernel is still running, scrolling (SHIFT-PgUp/PgDown) works, CTRL-ALT-DEL woorks, too.
I had the same/similar problem (and never solved) before.
Based on the same principle I had a RedHat 6.1 booting, 7.1 did not work, 7.2 did not work,
7.3 worked, 8.0 did not, 9.0 did not. And all of them came to the point of starting /sbin/init.
What could it be?
My assumption was that problem lies in ld-linux.so.2 (link to ld-2.3.2.so) from
glibc-2.3.2*.rpm package, or maybe /sbin/init from SysVinit*.rpm package.
I have tried replacing those with newer versions - it did not help.
Can anyone help?
