[Pkg-ltsp-devel] Bug#677637: ltsp-server: nbi.img cannot boot non-BIOS clients anymore

[Vagrant Cascadian]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 06:22:58PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> Having just upgraded to Wheezy, I notice that the nbi.img produced by 
> ltsp-build-client cannot bootstrap x86 clients built with a non-BIOS 
> firmware anymore. This results in several of my terminals no longer being 
> usable.

You may need to install mknbi in the chroot and configure your DHCP server to 
pass legacy-nbi.img instead of nbi.img:

  ltsp-chroot apt-get install mknbi
  ltsp-chroot /usr/share/ltsp/update-kernels

Alternately, install mknbi in the chroot and and remove mkelfimage, and then 
maybe the nbi.img files will work for you:

  ltsp-chroot apt-get install mknbi
  ltsp-chroot apt-get remove mkelfimage
  ltsp-chroot /usr/share/ltsp/update-kernels

If neither of those work, this is likely a bug in mkelfimage, mkelf-linux, or 
mknbi-linux (or at least a change in behavior, if not a bug).


Thanks for testing wheezy's LTSP!


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