On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Martin Hamant wrote: > Hello, > > I install Centos'es from PXE, with vmlinuz and initrd provided by > images/pxeboot from the first CD of centos 3.4. > > The server is a PowerEdge 1850 with two integrated e1000 nic interfaces. > > So kernel is booting, then it comes to the screen which ask for one nic > to do a dhcp query. I choose eth0, dhcp server reply well and then i get > an ip address, dns'es, etc. And nothing else happen because the nic link > is going down at this point !!! (no light, no way. ) > > I've tried with PXE install of centos 3.3, and all is working fine on > this server.... > > Do you think there is a problem with the centos 3.4 "installation time" > kernel ? I remember that centos 3.1 had problems about this nic too ... > > Any ideas ? > > Thank you ! > > -- > Martin > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at caosity.org > http://lists.caosity.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Just installed a couple of Supermicro servers with e1000 nics this weekend using CentOS 3.4. Have you tried PXE boot with ksdevice=link ? //Chris