Ubuntu
mknbi package

  1. Bug #487826
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 487826

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Kirk Steffensen (kirk-steffensen) wrote :

Oliver, still having the same problem under 10.04.1. Tried installing mknbi in chroot and then running update-initramfs, exiting chroot and running ltsp-update-kernels. This did not update nbi.img. So I tried " mknbi-linux --output=nbi.img-2.6.32-25-generic vmlinuz initrd.img" from chroot /boot/. This did update nbi.img. Reupdated ltsp kernels. Still failed to boot.

You said that mknbi and mkelfimage cannot be installed at the same time. But, if I try to uninstall mkelfimage, it also uninstalls ltsp-client. When I try update-initramfs with mkelfimage uninstalled, it gives three errors of "grep: /proc/modules: No such file or directory"

Can you please develop a step-by-step set of instructions for restoring mknbi and getting a good nbi.img? We're using some ancient PCs for our thin clients at a secondary school in Tanzania. No hard disks, can't boot from USB, and no CDROMS, so it's impossible to get gPXE on them without buying hardware, which isn't in the budget.

Thanks in advance!
Kirk