The LTSP kernel postinstall script (/etc/kernel/postinst.d/ltsp) refers to initrd instead of initramfs. This means that /boot/initrd.ltsp is a dangling symlink, and Fedora 12 LTSP images are unbootable. On my Fedora 12 system, the initrd is called initramfs-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img, not initrd-2.6.31.5-127.fc12.x86_64.img. The postinstall script should create links to the correct filename. Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide.
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 36 2009-11-05 18:05 initrd.ltsp -> initramfs-2.6.31.5-122.fc12.i686.img Not on my system. What version of ltsp-server did you run ltsp-build-client from?
The server is a Fedora 11 system (with ltsp-server-5.1.72-1.fc11.x86_64). Shouldn't the kernel postinstall script be created by programs within the client? How does the version of the ltsp-server come up?
oh, why are you building Fedora 12 based /opt/ltsp/i386 on Fedora 11 server? I suppose that can work if the Fedora 11 version of ltsp is upgraded, but I don't have the time to test that the new versions of ltsp are fully compatible with Fedora 11. Want to put work into this?
I have an NFS server that's running Fedora 11, but I am upgrading the clients to Fedora 12. It's impractical to upgrade all of them at once. The clients should be independent of the server anyway. I always just assumed that any version-specific stuff was done by client-side RPMs. As far as putting work into it goes, it depends on how much stuff is happening in ltsp-server that needs to be moved to ltsp-client. Thanks for your help.
Created attachment 369796 [details] patch for chroot-creator I'm attaching a proof-of-concept patch (which hasn't been tested) for chroot-creator. I think this approach should work pretty well and would lessen the amount of client-specific stuff on the server. If this works, it should allow the following items to be removed from the install list for the server package: %dir %{_sysconfdir}/ltsp/mkinitrd/ %{_sysconfdir}/ltsp/mkinitrd/* Like I said, I haven't actually tested the patch, but I would love to hear whether you see any problems with this approach. Thanks.
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I still think it would be helpful to have chroot-creator call dracut within the chroot instead of copying files from the server.
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