Fedora Core: PXE install fails

Tom Diehl tdiehl at rogueind.com
Fri Sep 26 19:30:02 UTC 2003


On 26 Sep 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 13:30, Tonko de Rooy wrote:
> > Hi,
> >  
> > We use PXE boot to install RH and it works great for any other
> > version, including the previous beta1.
> >  
> > What we do is serve images/pxeboot/vmlinuz and
> > images/pxeboot/initrd.img using PXELINUX 1.66
> >  
> > could not set new controlling tty
> > trying to remount root filesystem read write... done
> > mounting /tmp as ramfs... done
> > Failed to read directory /oldtmp: No such file or directoryrunning
> > install...
> > running /sbin/loader
> > install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
> > sending termination signals...done
> 
> on the kernel boot line add:
> 
> ramdisk_size=8192
> 
> that will fix it - that one tripped me up yesterday too

That bit me also. In addition I needed this:
http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/severn-test2-updates.img 

Drop it in as RedHat/base/updates.img

Worksforme. Of course ymmv.

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