10 Apr
2011
10 Apr
'11
6:53 p.m.
On the client, boot it up and do a dmesg. This is specific to that client - not the server. That should tell you whats going on - that would be my first step. Without knowing whats going on with the client its hard to diagnose a problem. Rob On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Robert Dyck <rbdyck2@shaw.ca> wrote: > It was sporadic. Last Friday one of our team tried to network boot 3 IBM > ThinkCentres. One successfully connected to Clonezilla, the other two had > this problem. Then we corrected the IP address in dhcpd.conf on the router > and rebooted it. When Lawrence tried to start Clonezilla again, all three > machines got the error. I had also tried to change node name: we set the > machine name for the Clonezilla server to "clonezilla" but the install > script set the node name for DRBL to "drbl". So we tried to change the node > name in dhcpd.conf on the clonezilla server to "clonezilla", then restart > the machine. That didn't change any behaviour. The node name may be stored > elsewhere, so to make it consistent we changed it back to "drbl" and > changed > the machine name to also "drbl". So that server now has a consistent > machine > name. No observed change in behaviour. However, after all this messing > around it now consistently fails. > > I didn't try alt-F1, but then I didn't install the GUI on the server. It's > strictly CUI. The router is actually running Fedora, the Clonezilla server > is running Ubuntu Server 10.10 Maverick. The client does get to a command > prompt when it halts. I did try "ls" and it does show the file system of > the > server. That's the other thing: why does it give an error about failure to > mount a file system when it does get the file system? > > Rob Dyck > > --- Robert Keizer wrote: > > You can also modify the small linux system that gets shoved to the > clients > - I had to change it at one point because of video drivers. This might > allow > you get a console on the machine. > > > > I'm assuming you've tried to hit alt+f1 etc to switch to a console and it > didn't work? > > > > Also, is it specific machines that cause this reaction, or is it > sporadic? > > > > > Rob > > > > _______________________________________________ > Roundtable mailing list > Roundtable@muug.mb.ca > http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/roundtable >