[Centos] Re: centos] PXE boot Centos 4.0beta problems

[asparks at quris.com (Alan Sparks)]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:15:45 -0500 (EST)
  R P Herrold <herrold@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Alan Sparks wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone yet tried PXE booting the vmlinuz/initrd.img 
>>set from Centos 
>> 4.0beta2?
> 
> yes - some differing things -- it runs the isntaller in 
>X rather than in text mode for FTP based installs.  This 
>causes horkage when the video card is not well suported.

Surprises me, since the video (on a new Compaq DL360) 
seemed to work OK on Centos 3.  This appears to be a 
kernel crash right when the install kernel gets control... 
never actually begins a boot sequence.

Using HTTP-based install, which doesn't support the 
X-based installer.
-Alan