On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 16:26 +0200, Graham Leggett wrote: > akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > I have traced all such kernel panic errors to errors on the grub line > > being read. Does the kernel version conform to the initrd version. Is > > the root indicated really the root partition with the right name (or > > label) in the fstab file. Do you have an /initrd directory on the > > machine. etc, etc. and so forth. > > Turns out the system-config-netboot package that Redhat produced is > fundamentally broken. > > It had set up Linux to boot from an initrd, however the initrd was > missing the required libraries to make bash work, which in turn stopped > their replacement init script from working, which in turn caused the > kernel panic. > > Performing a whole lot of surgery to the initrd file eventually got the > system to netboot, but the Fedora Core 2 system still has a long way to > go before it will work propery diskless. :( Can you advise as to what exactly you did to make it work? -- A: Because people read from top to bottom. Q: Why is top posting bad? Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
