-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I followed the instructions here: http://nixcraft.com/file-servers/14803-how-centos-5-pxe-linux-installation-server.html, along with a few other sources that were less successful, and I finally got a pxe boot going. I'm using CentOS 5.3 x86_64 media as the source. The server boots, but keeps hanging. Here is my boot line: images/centos/5/x64/vmlinuz com2=57600,8n1 console=com2,vga vga=normal initrd=images/centos/5/x64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=32768 text rescue console=ttyS1,57600n8 console=tty1 raid=noautodetect debug noquiet And here's how it hangs: Loading images/centos/5/x64/vmlinuz................................. Loading images/centos/5/x64/initrd.img.......................................... .............................................................. Ready. Linux version 2.6.18-128.el5 (mockbuild at builder10.centos.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)) #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009 Command line: com2=57600,8n1 console=com2,vga vga=normal initrd=images/centos/5/x64/initrd.img ramdisk_size=32768 text rescue console=ttyS1,57600n8 console=tty1 raid=noautodetect debug noquiet BOOT_IMAGE=images/centos/5/x64/vmlinuz BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bfb50000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000bfb50000 - 00000000bfb66000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000bfb66000 - 00000000bfb85c00 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000bfb85c00 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fe000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000740000000 (usable) DMI 2.5 present. ACPI: RSDP (v002 DELL ) @ 0x00000000000f2160 ACPI: XSDT (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000000f21fc ACPI: FADT (v003 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb83524 ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb83078 ACPI: SPCR (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb83130 ACPI: HPET (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb83184 ACPI: MCFG (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb831c0 ACPI: WD__ (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb83200 ACPI: SLIC (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb83338 ACPI: ERST (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb6c844 ACPI: HEST (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb6ca54 ACPI: BERT (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb6c6c4 ACPI: EINJ (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb6c6f4 ACPI: TCPA (v002 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 DELL 0x00000001) @ 0x00000000bfb834bc ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000011 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x00000000bfb6a996 ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000011 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x00000000bfb6b03c ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000011 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x00000000bfb6b6e2 ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000011 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x00000000bfb6bd88 ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000010 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x00000000bfb6c42e ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL PE_SC3 0x00000001 INTL 0x20050624) @ 0x0000000000000000 No NUMA configuration found Faking a node at 0000000000000000-0000000740000000 Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000740000000 Memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) notwithin permissible range disabling kdump On node 0 totalpages: 7233511 DMA zone: 2655 pages, LIFO batch:0 DMA32 zone: 766856 pages, LIFO batch:31 Normal zone: 6464000 pages, LIFO batch:31 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808 ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x06] enabled) Processor #6 6:15 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x07] enabled) Processor #7 6:15 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x14] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x15] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x16] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x08] lapic_id[0x17] disabled) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0xff] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x08] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 8, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x09] address[0xfec80000] gsi_base[32]) IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 9, version 32, address 0xfec80000, GSI 32-55 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x0a] address[0xfec81000] gsi_base[64]) IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 10, version 32, address 0xfec81000, GSI 64-87 ACPI: IO®zÂÙµ±¥¹ÕéÿInitializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 4194304 (order: 13, 33554432 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 2097152 (order: 12, 16777216 bytes) Checking aperture... PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB) Placing software IO TLB between 0x405d000 - 0x805d000 Memory: 28811752k/30408704k available (2494k kernel code, 543192k reserved, 1263k data, 200k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4658.32 BogoMIPS (lpj=2329162) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Initializing. SELinux: Starting in permissive mode selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability Capability LSM initialized as secondary Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 0 CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM1) SMP alternatives: switching to UP code ACPI: Core revision 20060707 Using local APIC timer interrupts. result 20781263 Detected 20.781 MHz APIC timer. SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 1/4 APIC 0x6 Initializing CPU#1 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4655.05 BogoMIPS (lpj=2327528) CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 3 CPU: Processor Core ID: 0 CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5140 @ 2.33GHz stepping 06 SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 2/4 APIC 0x1 Initializing CPU#2 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4655.03 BogoMIPS (lpj=2327518) CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 1 CPU2: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5140 @ 2.33GHz stepping 06 SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 3/4 APIC 0x7 Initializing CPU#3 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4654.97 BogoMIPS (lpj=2327487) CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 3 CPU: Processor Core ID: 1 CPU3: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU 5140 @ 2.33GHz stepping 06 Brought up 4 CPUs testing NMI watchdog ... OK. time.c: Using 14.318180 MHz WALL HPET GTOD HPET/TSC timer. time.c: Detected 2327.503 MHz processor. sizeof(vma)=176 bytes sizeof(page)=56 bytes sizeof(inode)=560 bytes sizeof(dentry)=216 bytes sizeof(ext3inode)=760 bytes sizeof(buffer_head)=96 bytes sizeof(skbuff)=240 bytes migration_cost=16,9133 checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 6485k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 No dock devices found. ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: Using MMCONFIG at e0000000 PCI: Dell PowerEdge 1950 detected, enabling pci=bfsort. ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: UsingPCI-GART: No AMD northbridge found. pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x800-0x87f could not be reserved pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x880-0x8bf has been reserved pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x8c0-0x8df has been reserved pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x8e0-0x8e3 has been reserved pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x900-0x900 has been reserved pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0xca0-0xca7 has been reserved pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0xca9-0xcab has been reserved pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0xca8-0xca8 has been reserved pnp: 00:09: ioport range 0xcac-0xcac has been reserved PCI: Bridge: 0000:08:00.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: f4000000-f7ffffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:07:00.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: f4000000-f7ffffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:07:01.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:06:00.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: f4000000-f7ffffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:06:00.3 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:02.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: f2000000-f7ffffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:01:00.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: fc500000-fc6fffff PREFETCH window: d8000000-d80fffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:01:00.2 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:03.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: fc400000-fc6fffff PREFETCH window: d8000000-d80fffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:0c:00.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:04.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: fc300000-fc3fffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:05.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:06.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:07.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:04:00.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: f8000000-fbffffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: f8000000-fbffffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: e000-efff MEM window: fc100000-fc2fffff PREFETCH window: d0000000-d7ffffff GSI 16 sharing vector 0xA9 and IRQ 16 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:06:00.0 to 64 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:07:00.0 to 64 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:08:00.0 to 64 ACPI: PCI Intide-floppy driver 0.99.newide usbcore: registered new driver hiddev usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver PNP: No PS/2 controller found. Probing ports directly. serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 TCP bic registered Initializing IPsec netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 ACPI: (supports S0 S4 S5) Freeing unused kernel memory: 200k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 482k Does anyone know what could be wrong? I just need to get to a shell and get into fdisk. Russ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFMEBpKGUZBYlCheYcRAkd6AKC/QeBNqnpmR+D8Aq9KaCF4HAglngCfVytH 08/fy6t85DZXeWHt4hTI9I4= =ApnE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----