Re: [Ltsp-discuss] doing pivot root

[Sudev B. <su...@ma...>]

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 16:22, Andy Rabagliati wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Asep fahrudin wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > >    I have a ltsp server running.
> > > One of the client that was booting now stops midway and generates
> > > the following message :
> > > 
> > > eth0: Realteak rtl found 8029 found at 0xc000, IRQ5 00:90:05:8C:dd
> > > running dhclient
> > > Mounting root filesystem : /opt/ltsp/i386
> > > Doing pivot root
> > > NFS : server 192.168.0.253 not responding, still trying
> > > NFS : server 192.168.0.253 not responding, still trying
> > > NFS : task 62 can't get a request slot
> > > 
> > > I have three other clients perfectly booting.
> > > I  shutdown all three clients and even then the same problem persists.
> > 
> > > please give me sloution
> 
> I have had the same problem with Realtek 8029s.
> 
> I even found that it was specific to ports on the switch - try plugging
> it in to a working port.
> 
> The answer ?
> 
> Change the Realteks for something else.
> 
> Really.
> 
> I wasted a week on this. There is no way round.
Interestingly I had a similar problem. However connecting to different
port on the switch worked!!??
I found that in most(?) of the switches actual hardware handling is for
8 ports x n. So putting the wire from a client using ISA 10BaseT NIC to
any of the first 8 ports worked but did not work from port 9 to 24!!!
Andy's solution is better...if possible get newer NIC's but watch out
for older clients with ISA bus NIC's
-- 
Sudev Barar

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