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<tt>Hi Krishnaprasad,<br>
<br>
I saw your post about the same topic on the CentOS forum. When you
encounter bugs about the CentOS LiveCD, the preferred way to report
them is via a ticket on the CentOS LiveCD website
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd">https://projects.centos.org/trac/livecd</a>). Could you create a ticket
there please?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
--<br>
Patrice<br>
<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Krishnaprasad_K@Dell.com">Krishnaprasad_K@Dell.com</a> wrote:</tt>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span class="apple-style-span"><span
 style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);">Hello,</span></span><span
 style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);"><br>
  <br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">This is regarding a query w.r.t CentOS
5.5 Live CD
Bootup from PXE server. From the CentOS LiveCD project webpage, i do
see that
PXE booting of CentOS live CD is pretty simple as the ISO image itself
is
carried inside the initrd.</span><br>
  <br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">I downloaded the
"livecd-tools-014-8.src.rpm"
from CentOS repositories and created a new initrd image ( which
contains Live
ISO image ) using "livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh" script.</span><br>
  <br>
  <span class="apple-style-span"><b># ./livecd-iso-to-pxeboot.sh
CentOS-5.5-i386-LiveCD-Release2.iso</b></span><br>
  <br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">This creates a new initrd by
incorporating the ISO
image ( live ISO image ) with the existing initrd present in the live
CD ISO
image.</span><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>
  <br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">But when i use this updated initrd
from PXE
server, it says "Boot failed...press a key to retry or wait to
reset..."</span><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><img
 id="Picture_x0020_1"
 src="cid:part1.07040101.03030607@nanotechnologies.qc.ca"
 alt="https://www.centos.org/uploads/smil3dbd4d75edb5e.gif" height="17"
 width="17"><br>
  <br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">Here is the PXE entry:-<o:p></o:p></span></span></tt></p>
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 style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></span></tt></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal"><tt><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span
 style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);">kernel
vmlinuz0</span></b></span><b><span
 style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);"><br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">APPEND initrd=initrd0.img
root=/CentOS-5.5-i386-LiveCD-Release2.iso rootfstype=iso9660
rootflags=loop 3</span><span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><br>
  </span></b><span
 style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: &quot;Verdana&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: rgb(70, 70, 70);"><br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">- where vmlinuz0 is the kernel image
present in
the CentOS iso and initrd0.img is the updated initrd image created
using the
script ( livecd-xxx-pxe.sh ). i.e. CentOS live ISO initrd with ISO
image.</span><br>
  <br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">When the
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default is updated
with the above entries, then server gets restarted and in the next boot
up
system shows an error, i.e. <b>"Alert ! System fatal error during
previous
boot"</b></span><b><br>
  </b><br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">any one have experienced same issues?</span><br>
  <br>
  <br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">Thanks in Advance !</span><br>
  <br>
  <span class="apple-style-span">- Krishnaprasad</span></span><span
 style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: &quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></tt></p>
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