FW: [Thinstation-general] Machine powers off during boot?

[Paul B. <pa...@pr...>]

Ah, sorry for the lack of info, I'm in tech support and spend all day
berating people for doing the same thing, duh!

I boot from CD, using a TS-o-matic (the latest stable version, 2.1.3?),
the machine have 128MB in them.  Though my other systems run thinstation
fine with 64MB I have tried swapping memory about and increasing memory
size with the same result.  I've also swapped out the CD-ROM and altered
the boot sequence (originally I tried removing the hard drive and just
having the CD-ROM in the boot sequence but I thought that might be
causing a problem)  The towers don't have a model number on them, just
"HP Brio' but I can get the serial number off the motherboard if that's
of any use to some of the more hardware minded types.

-----Original Message-----
From: Trevor Batley [mailto:tre...@us...]=20
Sent: 22 December 2005 13:02
To: Paul Berry
Cc: Thi...@li...
Subject: Re: [Thinstation-general] Machine powers off during boot?

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:52 +0000, Paul Berry wrote:
> I've successfully deployed thinstation to around 20 machines, running
> the ica client and all is well.   However I recently got hold of 5 or
> 6 old HP Brio machines (PIII 650MHZ)  and when thinstation starts to
> boot the machine powers off.  It's during the 'Loading initrd' section
> of the boot, I get to 2 lines of periods and then the machine just
> shuts down.  I thought it might be something to do with the power
> management options, so I've disabled all those from the BIOS.  If the
> machine is set to power on after a power loss it resets itself rather
> than shutting down, it's exactly as if the machine was losing power at
> exactly the same point every time.  Anyone got any ideas?

What memory do they have in them and what is your ramdisk_size setting
in your pxelinux.cfg/default or syslinux.cfg file? Also how big is your
initrd?

You also haven't told us which version you are using, how you built it
(local via TS-O-matic or prebuilt), or how you have deployed it (cdrom,
pxe boot, etherboot, syslinux.....).

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