[Centos] PXE(bis) boot Centos 4.0 problems

[mh at accelance.fr (Martin Hamant)]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 08:09:17 -0700
Alan Sparks <asparks@xxxxxxxxx> disait:

> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 01:13, Martin Hamant wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If it fails during the normal kernel boot sequence, it's too quick for
> me to perceive.  pxelinux begins to load the kernel, and it seems to
> be at the transition to running the loaded kernel that hell breaks
> out.  I can see no obvious sign that vmlinuz is actually starting,
> more like a blob of bad code just started and toasted the boot.
> 
> Double-checked the vmlinux and initrd I'm using, they are not
> corrupted...

2.6.8.1-12mdkBOOT from directory i586/isolinux/ of the distro is booting
fine from the network........
You see what i mean ? I'm going to build *my* PXE kernel :)))

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Martin