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Actually, I increased the size of the RAM disk and the problem went away.
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Actually, I increased the size of the RAM disk and the problem went away.

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I've recently begun working on using the PXES Universal thin client software from sourceforge. &nbsp;This is an extremely interesting project and I've enjoyed figuring it out. &nbsp;Currently I have a ramdisk and kernel that I can boot with via tftp. &nbsp;However, when I take that same image and install it locally it crashes in a kernel panic. &nbsp;I've included the last few lines of the boot process with this message. &nbsp;As far as I can tell either I need to change the limit in the ramdisk or set the device that root needs to boot from. &nbsp;I would appreciate and suggestion anyone may have. &nbsp;Thanks in advance.<br />
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mounted devfs on /dev<br />
attempt to access beyond end of device<br />
01:00: rw=0, want=16399, limit=11685<br />
EXT-fs error (device ramdisk (1,0)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block -inode 889, block=16398<br />
VFS: cannot open root device &quot;&quot;&nbsp;or 3a:06<br />
Please append a correct &quot;root=&quot; boot option<br />
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:06
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I've recently begun working on using the PXES Universal thin client software from sourceforge.  This is an extremely interesting project and I've enjoyed figuring it out.  Currently I have a ramdisk and kernel that I can boot with via tftp.  However, when I take that same image and install it locally it crashes in a kernel panic.  I've included the last few lines of the boot process with this message.  As far as I can tell either I need to change the limit in the ramdisk or set the device that root needs to boot from.  I would appreciate and suggestion anyone may have.  Thanks in advance.

mounted devfs on /dev
attempt to access beyond end of device
01:00: rw=0, want=16399, limit=11685
EXT-fs error (device ramdisk (1,0)): ext2_read_inode: unable to read inode block -inode 889, block=16398
VFS: cannot open root device "" or 3a:06
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 3a:06

Linux PXES thin client setup

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