I just tried a CentOS 7 install to a laptop over PXE and it failed in just the
same way as for the VM.
So, is it not possible to install CentOS 7 via PXE? Or is there something
missing? I just copied the images under os/x86_64/images/ to the tftpd
directory (/var/lib/tftpboot/) and included in
/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default this section:
label centos75-64
MENU LABEL CentOS 7.5 x86_64
kernel centos75x86_64vmlinuz
append initrd=centos75x86_64initrd.img
Do I need anything more?
Things seem to die/fail at some point after initializing the graphics frame
buffer. Is there a way to do a non-graphical install? I have a keyboard and
really know how to use it and don't need some silly ("friendly"?) GUI to
install Linux (I don't need hand-holding).
At Thu, 20 Sep 2018 16:40:45 -0400 (EDT) CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> I just tried to create a CentOS 7 VM on a CentOS 6 host, but it crashes to the
> dracut prompt. I am using the PXEBoot installer. I *think* it is unhappy
> with the (virtual) graphics controller, but I am not sure.
>
> The rdsosreport.txt file is available here:
> https://www.deepsoft.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/rdsosreport.txt
>
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