I am utilizing the pxeboot image now. When I used the instructions Samuel sent to create a bootable flash drive, I used the initrd.img from the pxeboot directory rather than the usual initrd.img. Thanks for the assistance! |---------+---------------------------------> | | "Ryan Golhar" | | | <ryangolhar@xxxxxxxxxx| | | t> | | | Sent by: | | | kickstart-list-bounces| | | @redhat.com | | | No Phone Info | | | Available | | | | | | 04/29/2004 09:06 AM | | | Please respond to | | | golharam; Please | | | respond to Discussion | | | list about Kickstart | | | | |---------+---------------------------------> >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: "'Discussion list about Kickstart'" <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx> | | cc: | | Subject: RE: Kickstart using USB Flash Drive | >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| I believe you need to dd the whole disk image and not just initrd.img. vmlinuz needs to be located on the first sector to boot. ----- Ryan Golhar Computational Biologist The Informatics Institute at The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ Phone: 973-972-5034 Fax: 973-972-7412 Email: golharam@xxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rebecca.R.Hepper@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:46 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Kickstart using USB Flash Drive Thanks for the clarification. I'm still a bit confused though. On the RH 9 CDs, the pxeboot dir contains initrd.img and vmlinuz. The initrd.img has all the modules I require. If I 'dd' only the initrd.img to my USB flash drive, the computer won't boot off it - the computer boots up as normal. What else do I need to 'dd' to the flash drive? Where do my syslinux.cfg and boot.msg files go when utilizing the pxe boot image? |---------+---------------------------------> | | Jason Kohles | | | <email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx| | | > | | | Sent by: | | | kickstart-list-bounces| | | @redhat.com | | | No Phone Info | | | Available | | | | | | 04/28/2004 03:44 PM | | | Please respond to | | | Discussion list about | | | Kickstart | | | | |---------+---------------------------------> >----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------| | | | To: Discussion list about Kickstart <kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx> | | cc: | | Subject: Re: Kickstart using USB Flash Drive | >----------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------| On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 03:40:02PM -0500, Rebecca.R.Hepper@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I did look into doing PXE installs quite some time ago but it wasn't a > viable option for my situation. I would rather stick the bootdisk.img plus > any additional drivers on my USB flash drive if there is a way to do that. > My point wasn't to do pxe installs, it was that the pxe boot image is an oversized floppy image that is basically a combination of the bootdisk.img and drvnet.img, stick it on your usb drive and you probably won't need to do anything else. -- Jason Kohles A witty saying proves nothing. email@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Voltaire (1694 - 1778) http://www.jasonkohles.com/ _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
