[CentOS] how to debug pxe boot problems

Tue Apr 13 09:43:34 UTC 2010
Rudi Ahlers <rudiahlers at gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> wrote:
> Rudi Ahlers wrote on Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:55:43 +0200:
>
>> When I load "Dos Bootdisk", I get an error:
>>
>>
>> Loading memdisk....
>> Could not find ramdisk image:images/622c.img
>> boot :
>>
>>
>>
>> So, it's reading the configuration, but not loading the CentOS boot
>> image.
>
> I don't see that you tested the CentOS boot image. You tested loading a
> DOS image and that obviously doesn't find images/622c.img
>
The others does nothing when I try and boot them....


>> Does anyone know how to get pxeboot to output debug messages to
>> syslog?  OR,what am I doing wrong?
>
> What do you want to see more? It does not find that image. That's pretty
> clear, isn't it? Put kernel and initrd always in the same directory.


> And why you are trying to boot a DOS disk when you want to boot CentOS, I
> don't know.

Cause I used the sample configation on the WIKI, and the DOS option is
listed. Why is it listed on the Wiki if ppl are going to question it's
usage?

>
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