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.<div><br></div><div>I'm assuming you've tried to hit alt+f1 etc to switch to a console and it didn't work?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Also, is it specific machines that cause this reaction, or is it sporadic? </div><div><br></div><div>Rob<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Sean Walberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swalberg@gmail.com">swalberg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Check your syslogs on the nfs server. Might be getting a permission<br>
error somewhere.<br>
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On 2011-04-10, at 6:53 AM, Robert Dyck <<a href="mailto:rbdyck2@shaw.ca">rbdyck2@shaw.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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> What we're seeing: We use either a floppy with gPXE to simulate network<br>
> boot, or a CD with gPXE, or a few machines can be configured in BIOS to do a<br>
> real network boot. The client displays that it does connect to the<br>
> Clonezilla server, it does go through DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot for Linux)<br>
> so it appears the TFTP process works. We do get a brief text menu that shows<br>
> it will attempt to boot into Clonezilla client, then a series of messages<br>
> scroll off the display indicating Linux start-up. However, we get a message<br>
> that appears to say something about failure to mount a file system. The<br>
> exact problem isn't clear since the messages scroll off the client machine's<br>
> screen too quickly to read before it halts. We do have a Linux machine that<br>
> acts as our router, but it has it's DHCP stack configured to point to the<br>
> Clonezilla server ("next server" and "filename" parameters set in<br>
> dhcpd.conf). Since we do get DRBL messages complete with a menu indicating<br>
> it tries to start Clonezilla client, it shouldn't be the router. We have<br>
> checked that NFS is running on the Clonezilla server. Help.<br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
> Rob Dyck<br>
><br>
> --- Mike pfaiffer wrote:<br>
>> Lindsay (the CLL supervisor) has asked if I could ask<br>
>> the folks at the MUUG if there is anyone in the club with<br>
>> Clonezilla experience who could show up for a Friday to go<br>
>> over our set up and see what we are missing. There are two of<br>
>> us working on the server and between the two of us we can<br>
>> almost get it working consistently. What we are doing should<br>
>> work (and did work for six machines a month ago). So far it<br>
>> looks like the machines are doing a diskless boot into Linux<br>
>> without installing the disk image. Rob may have more<br>
>> information than this. When it works it works like a champ.<br>
>> When it doesn't, we don't have a clue why... At least one of<br>
>> the five of us will be at Tuesdays meeting...<br>
>><br>
>> Later<br>
>> Mike<br>
><br>
><br>
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