On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Martin Hamant wrote:
> I install Centos'es from PXE, with vmlinuz and initrd provided by
> images/pxeboot from the first CD of centos 3.4.
>
> The server is a PowerEdge 1850 with two integrated e1000 nic interfaces.
>
> So kernel is booting, then it comes to the screen which ask for one nic
> to do a dhcp query. I choose eth0, dhcp server reply well and then i get
> an ip address, dns'es, etc. And nothing else happen because the nic link
> is going down at this point !!! (no light, no way. )
>
> I've tried with PXE install of centos 3.3, and all is working fine on
> this server....
Using Dell PE 1850 and Cisco and encounter the same problem:
The e1000.o in i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img is bust on CentOS-3.4.
i386/images/pxeboot/initrd.img on (humhum)EL-3.4 works fine, though.
To get pxe for CentOS-3.4 to work, I use the e1000.o from CentOS-3.3
initrd.img. To unpack / modify / pack initrd.img :
unpack:
zcat initrd.img > initrd.dat
mkdir /mnt/loop ; mount -o loop initrd.dat /mnt/loop
zcat /mnt/loop/modules/modules.cgz | cpio -idvm
modify:
unpack the CentOS-3.3 initrd.img, copy the e1000.o to a temporary
place. unpack the CentOS-3.4 initrd.img, replace the 3.4 e1000.o
with the 3.3 (temporary) one.
pack:
find <kernel> | cpio -o -H crc | gzip > /mnt/loop/modules/modules.cgz
umount /mnt/loop
gzip -c9 initrd.dat > initrd.img
Eureka - works like a charm. :-)
Should this hit the CentOS bugzilla?
Regards,
Morten
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