[CentOS] CentOS-4.3 Kickstart 'Boot Failed'

Mon May 8 14:15:56 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 08:55 -0500, Rebecca Hepper wrote:
> >From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>
> >Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> >To: CentOS ML <centos at centos.org>
> >Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS-4.3 Kickstart 'Boot Failed'
> >Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 06:58:07 -0500
> >
> >On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 06:35 -0500, Rebecca Hepper wrote:
> > > This is on a pentium 4 system with a 945 chipset and a Pentium D 820
> > > processor.
> >
> >That should work ... there is an image in the /images directory that is
> >made specifically to copy to a flash drive called diskboot.img  ...
> >also, I sometimes use the /images/pxeboot/ vmlinux and initrd.img
> >
> 
> I tried using the vmlinuz and initrd.img from the /images/pxeboot directory 
> and still received the 'boot failed' message.  I also tried using 
> diskboot.img with the same results.
> 
> If I replace the 4.3 vmlinuz with the 4.2 vmlinuz and keep all the other 4.3 
> files, I do not get a 'boot failed' message.  My vmlinuz gets loaded as well 
> as the initrd.img then I fail for not finding the ks.cfg file (this 
> shouldn't be a problem to fix).  Is there any danger in using the 4.2 
> vmlinuz for a 4.3 kickstart?
> 

Yes ... the timestamps won't matchup :(

must be a hardware issue .. you could try the i586 versions (though i686
should work). The 4.2 one is an i586 kernel.

(that would be initi586.img and vmlzi586 )

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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