[Unattended-gui-users] Fwd: drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device

[Will S. <she...@gm...>]

Thanks Mario, it works now.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mario Gzuk <mar...@te...>
Date: 12-Apr-2007 13:17
Subject: Re: [Unattended-gui-users] drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to
open rtc device
To: Will Sheldon <she...@gm...>
Cc: una...@li...


Hi, the initrd should be published via the tftp server. Your isolinux
configuration is not correct. It should look like this:
label linux
    kernel /linux/ua_0.1.kernel
    append initrd=/linux/ua_0.1.root
So the file ua_0.1.root should be in the same directory like the
kernel.

greetings mario

Am Donnerstag, den 12.04.2007, 11:50 +0100 schrieb Will Sheldon:
> Hi,
>
> I made some corrections to the wiki, I hope they are ok.
>
> I'm having a problem with pxe booting the image, the kernel loads ok,
> then when it tries to grab the root fs i get:
>
>     drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device
>
> then all the RPC calls return 101 errors & it requests a floppy with
> the root fs...
>
> What does your /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default file look like?
> this is mine:
>
>     default linux
>     timeout 100
>     prompt 1
>     display msgs/boot.msg
>     F1 msgs/boot.msg
>     F2 msgs/additional.msg
>     F3 msgs/information.msg
>
>     label local
>       localboot 0
>
>     label linux
>      kernel linux/ua_0.1.kernel
>      append root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.10.0.151:/nfsexport/ua_0.1.root
>
> is it right?
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated..
>
> Will.