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

[Dhawal Doshy]

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> text  initrd=/images/rhel4/initrd.img ks= 
> 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..