> 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? there are 2 nics: - intel pro 1000 which is on the motherboard and which cannot be flashed. - separate PCI intel pro 10/100 with flash memory. I'm trying to boot from the PCI Intel pro 10/100. This card comes with a particular boot agent (1.0.14) which does not seem to work when using pxe-0.1-20.src.rpm. The pxe client says that the proxydhcp on port 4011 is not answering (PXE-E55). I've enabled the proxydhcp in the pxe.conf file and I can see that there is a service running on udp port 4011 when using netstat. Also, I can see that there are pxe packets transmitted by the pxe client but these do not look exactly the same when using a different flash memory. So, I've flashed the Intel pro 10/100 with an older flash from an Intel pro 10/100 which is in a Dell poweredge 1400 and it starts to boot but got stuch at the messages 'downloading kernel/initrd'. The flash currently reports 'Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 067). Should I use this one or a more recent one ? > 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. I've tried to set the bios to limit to 256MB only but still same problem. Thanks, Thierry.
