[CentOS] CentOS-4.3 Kickstart 'Boot Failed'

Mon May 8 17:39:27 UTC 2006
Rebecca Hepper <rebecca5511 at hotmail.com>



>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 09:15:56 -0500
>
>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
>

Yes, the i586 versions work great for me!  Thank you for all the help - it 
is much appreciated!

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