Ignition (was Re: tftp config problem (ltsp))

[sean]

VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 16:07:18 +0000
>> From: sean <tech.junk at verizon.net>
> 
>> During the boot process was getting error notices about not being able 
>> to connect to the nfs server.
>>
>> Did some research and found this sometimes occurs when the speed of the 
>> server nic is so much faster then the client nic. Apparently this showed 
>> up with the 2.6 kernel.
> 
> Care to share what the problem/solution was?  This sounds like something
> which others on this list might likely encounter.
> 

Could not find where I saw the original write up.
But it has to do with the NIC in the server box being 1G and the NIC in 
the test laptop being only 100MB.

Something about such a wide spread in the speed capabilities causes the 
slower NIC not to be able to keep up with the faster one.

In the prelinux.cfg directory I added the last line to the default file.

prompt 0
label linux
   kernel bzImage-2.6.17.8-ltsp-1
   append rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=initramfs.gz
   MOPTS=nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048