On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 16:19, Thierry Delaitre wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install RedHat 7.2 on a Dell 1500SC using PXE. DHCP/PXE/tftp > work ok until the client machine downloads the kernel (linux.1) & initrd > (linux.2). > > The boot process: > > - The first boot device of my client is the network adapter (pxe client); > - The client gets an IP address from DHCP server; > - Press F8 to view menu..... message is shown; > - So, I select Remote Install Linux; > - The sytem shows this two messages: > > Downloading Linux kernel image ........ > Downloading initrd image..... > > At this point the startup process stops every time, and nothing > happens. The messages still on display forever !!!! > > - I'm using pxe-0.1-20.src.rpm > > - DELL 1500SC has 2 processors and 2GB of RAM. > > - I'm using the pxe image boot files (linux.1 & linux.2) which come with > the redhat 7.2 CD. > > The same setup works with Dell PowerEdge 1400. Why doesn't it work for the > Dell 1500SC ? Is that because it has 2 processors ? It is weird that it > does not even say that it is uncompressing the linux kernel ? > which nic? some of the nics need a rom update to boot well. also you will need to limit the available mem to the kernel at boot time to 800MB iirc - search through bugzilla - there are some good entries in there. -sv
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