[et-mgmt-tools] Kernel panic while booting rhel4 via pxe

[Michael DeHaan]

niyaz chistee wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply once again. I did append ramdisk_size=8192 
> or ramdisk_size=16438 but it didn't helped. Same error once again. One 
> more thing to tell you is that I am trying to install the client via 
> VMware in windows. Does this situation creates this error?

FYI:   I've removed the ramdisk option (it was unneccessary) from newer 
versions of cobbler.  New installs won't have that.

(Still reading...)


>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
> SysAdmin
>
> On 3/31/07, *Dhawal Doshy* <dhawal at netmagicsolutions.com 
> <mailto:dhawal at netmagicsolutions.com>> wrote:
>
>     niyaz chistee wrote:
>     > Thanks for quick response. This is my cobbler --report:
>     > distro          : rhel4
>     > kernel          : /media/hda6/rhel4/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
>     > initrd          : /media/hda6/rhel4/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
>     > kernel options  : {}
>     > architecture    : x86
>     > ks metadata     : {}
>     > breed           : redhat
>     >
>     > profile         : rhel4x
>     > distro          : rhel4
>     > kickstart       : /media/hda6/rhel4/ks.cfg
>     > kernel options  : {}
>     > ks metadata     : {}
>     > virt file size  : 5
>     > virt ram        : 512
>     > virt paravirt   : True
>     > repos           :
>     >
>     > And here is my /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
>     >
>     > DEFAULT local
>     > PROMPT 1
>     > MENU TITLE Cobbler | http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
>     > TIMEOUT 200
>     > TOTALTIMEOUT 6000
>     > ONTIMEOUT local
>     >
>     > LABEL local
>     >         MENU LABEL (local)
>     >         MENU DEFAULT
>     >         LOCALBOOT 0
>     >
>     > LABEL rhel4x
>     >        kernel /images/rhel4/vmlinuz
>     >        MENU LABEL rhel4x
>     >        append ksdevice=eth0 lang= syslog= 192.168.1.45:25150
>     <http://192.168.1.45:25150>
>     > <http://192.168.1.45:25150>
>     text  initrd=/images/rhel4/initrd.img ks=
>     > http://192.168.1.45/cblr/kickstarts/rhel4x/ks.cfg
>     <http://192.168.1.45/cblr/kickstarts/rhel4x/ks.cfg>
>
>     You do not appear to have a ramdisk_size=8192 OR ramdisk_size=16438 in
>     your 'append' line of '/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default'. Maybe (just
>     maybe) that is the cause of the this problem..
>
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