<div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Rob</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Robert Dyck <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rbdyck2@shaw.ca" target="_blank">rbdyck2@shaw.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">It was sporadic. Last Friday one of our team tried to network boot 3 IBM<br>
ThinkCentres. One successfully connected to Clonezilla, the other two had<br>
this problem. Then we corrected the IP address in dhcpd.conf on the router<br>
and rebooted it. When Lawrence tried to start Clonezilla again, all three<br>
machines got the error. I had also tried to change node name: we set the<br>
machine name for the Clonezilla server to "clonezilla" but the install<br>
script set the node name for DRBL to "drbl". So we tried to change the node<br>
name in dhcpd.conf on the clonezilla server to "clonezilla", then restart<br>
the machine. That didn't change any behaviour. The node name may be stored<br>
elsewhere, so to make it consistent we changed it back to "drbl" and changed<br>
the machine name to also "drbl". So that server now has a consistent machine<br>
name. No observed change in behaviour. However, after all this messing<br>
around it now consistently fails.<br>
<br>
I didn't try alt-F1, but then I didn't install the GUI on the server. It's<br>
strictly CUI. The router is actually running Fedora, the Clonezilla server<br>
is running Ubuntu Server 10.10 Maverick. The client does get to a command<br>
prompt when it halts. I did try "ls" and it does show the file system of the<br>
server. That's the other thing: why does it give an error about failure to<br>
mount a file system when it does get the file system?<br>
<br>
Rob Dyck<br>
<div><br>
--- Robert Keizer wrote:<br>
> You can also modify the small linux system that gets shoved to the clients<br>
- I had to change it at one point because of video drivers. This might allow<br>
you get a console on the machine.<br>
><br>
> I'm assuming you've tried to hit alt+f1 etc to switch to a console and it<br>
didn't work?<br>
><br>
> Also, is it specific machines that cause this reaction, or is it sporadic?<br>
<br>
><br>
> Rob<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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