On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Tim Nelson <tnelson at rockbochs.com> wrote: > Because of the sheer number of box (re)installations we do that have a CentOS base, I've converted our provisioning process to PXE. However, I've found that an alarming number of motherboards are coming with the Realtek RTL8168 ethernet controller onboard. When the system boots, it cannot find an ethernet controller and the installer process hangs. Sorry, this is not about the mkinitrd stuff, but I just wanted to refer you to this useful forum post by Alan Bartlett because you are dealing with hardware that requires the Realtek 8168 driver: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=thread&topic_id=19428&forum=40&post_id=75910 Hope this helps, Akemi