[Centos] Re: centos] PXE boot Centos 4.0beta problems

R P Herrold herrold at owlriver.com
Mon Jan 31 20:15:45 UTC 2005


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



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