Diskless X hangs with 2 screens in ServerLayout

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Hi,

I am running RedHat Enterprise 4. I have 2 display adapters in my server where
I run 2 different window managers, one on each "screen". I have a "ServerLayout" 
section in Xorg.conf section where I have a "Screen 0" and "Screen 1" section.
I also have 2 screen sections, 2 device sections and 2 monitor sections. 
I run startx and both window managers start up perfectly.

My goal now is to boot Linux across the network using PXE. 
RedHat has a nice GUI that sets it up. It uses "rsync" to pull your image across
 the network from the hard drive which you installed it on so I know my image 
(kernel and file systems) that I am booting are the same as on my hard drive. 
Some directories are read-only and some are read-write after I boot.

When I boot up Linux on my server using PXE, Linux boots up. 
I then run startx and I get 2 black screens and I can not longer ssh into my box 
(not sure I can ping the node either). I am dead. The servers dont start up and I see no 
window managers. After I reboot I tried commenting out either "Screen 0" or "Screen 1" 
in my Server Layout section and then I can start X up on ONE adapter/screen/monitor. 
As long as I comment out one I am all set. If I leave them both uncommented then I hang. 
I tried running "Xorg -configure" and it generated a sample xorg.conf.new and the same 
thing happens when I run "X -config /root/xorg.conf.new" - the server hangs if both 
"Screen 0" and "Screen 1" are defined in the ServerLayout section. If I comment out either
r of the Screen lines in the ServerLayout section I can run "X -config /root/xorg.conf.new". 

When I booted off of my hard drive I did not have this problem. I have been using this for a month. 

Has anyone every seen this? Do I have to move some directories to be read/write when I
have 2 screens defined?

Thanks,
Todd


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