[Centos] PXE(bis) boot Centos 4.0 problems

[mh at accelance.fr (Martin Hamant)]

On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:25:23 -0700
"Alan Sparks" <asparks@xxxxxxxxx> disait:

> On Tue, 08 Mar 2005 13:37:41 -0700
>   "Alan Sparks" <asparks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Just FYI, CentOS 4.0final PXE boot doesn't work on 
> >Compaq DL360 G4 systems either.  You get "Loading......" 
> >immediately replaced by a screen full of flashing 
> >multicolored confetti.
> > 
> > I'm lost...
> > -Alan
> 
> Does /anyone/ out there have any luck with Compaq 
> DL-series servers PXEbooting CentOS 4, or even RHEL4?
> 
> Using the same platform I used for CentOS 3 (worked 
> great).  PXElinux 3.07 for bootloader.  Have tried about 
> every boot option available as well (nousb, noapic, nomce, 
> apic, nopcmcia) to no avail.
> 
> This is a Xeon processor system with hardware RAID 
> (cciss).

You said you see "Loading.....", that's a bit best no ? :-D
Don't you see "Loading vmlinuz......." instead ?

I've tested on three differents hardware : a PowerEdge 1850, and two
differents i386 PC, it results in the same flashing chars issue, just
after "..............." with *no* "Loading vmlinuz.." to begin.

-- 
Martin