test 3 PXE boot hangs

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Thu Oct 4 18:34:22 UTC 2007


On 10/04/2007 02:07 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> I'm trying to use the PXE files to load F8 test3 on an IBM X40 laptop. I
> copied the kernel and initrd.img to the laptop and configured grub to
> load them.  This is how I normally install Linux on this host, since it
> has no removable media.  The system boots, and gets to "running
> /sbin/loader", and goes no further.  I can still switch terminals, and
> keystrokes are printed to the console, but that's it.  Ctrl+Alt+Del does
> not reboot the system.
> 
> All of my filesystems, except for /boot are logical volumes.  The
> logical volume for /home (LogVol02) is an encrypted filesystem, but
> that's the only thing that I can think of that would be "odd" about my
> system.
> 
> What can I do to determine where the installer is hanging up?
> 

What is displayed on consoles 3 and 4?




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