Has anyone yet tried PXE booting the vmlinuz/initrd.img set from Centos 4.0beta2?
I have a pxelinux setup that is booting 3.4 PXE images fine, but the equivalent setup for 4.0beta loads the kernel and then splashes the monitor full of multicolor random characters. Not a good start to an install...
Anyone had luck? Any changes for PXE boots known for 4.0? Thanks in advance. -Alan
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Alan Sparks wrote:
Has anyone yet tried PXE booting the vmlinuz/initrd.img set from Centos 4.0beta2?
yes - some differing things -- it runs the isntaller in X rather than in text mode for FTP based installs. This causes horkage when the video card is not well suported.
Anyone had luck? Any changes for PXE boots known for 4.0? Thanks in advance.
also the kernel/X combination locks up with some video hardware -- see eg: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=144622
-- Russ Herrold
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:15:45 -0500 (EST) R P Herrold herrold@owlriver.com wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Alan Sparks wrote:
Has anyone yet tried PXE booting the vmlinuz/initrd.img set from Centos 4.0beta2?
yes - some differing things -- it runs the isntaller in X rather than in text mode for FTP based installs. This causes horkage when the video card is not well suported.
Surprises me, since the video (on a new Compaq DL360) seemed to work OK on Centos 3. This appears to be a kernel crash right when the install kernel gets control... never actually begins a boot sequence.
Using HTTP-based install, which doesn't support the X-based installer. -Alan
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