pxe

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Thu May 31 17:18:34 UTC 2007


Martin Papadopoulos wrote:
> eric magaoay schrieb:
>   
>> Martin,
>> I have been using PXE boot/install F7 development builds without a
>> problem (mostly x86_64, but sometimes i386 -build tree). Make sure
>> your config setup in dhcpd.conf and config file(s) under pxelinux.cfg
>> directory is correct. Try using the boot kernel/initrd located in:
>>
>> /isolinux/vmlinuz
>> /isolinux/initrd.img
>>
>> eric
>>
>> Martin Papadopoulos wrote:
>>     
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> since the early dev phases of f7 , no single vmlinuz version is bootable
>>> via pxe.
>>> boot the pxe vmlinuz provided always leeds to "invalid or corrupt kernel
>>> image"
>>> it's really bugging since nowadays pxe and kickstart are common
>>> infrastructure methods for deployment :-(
>>>
>>> greetz
>>>
>>> martin papadopoulos
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
> pooh.
> je*** ch*** ,
> i had a type in the pxelinux.cfg and misinterpreted the pxelinux message.
> sorry guys.
>
> works fine now.
>
> thanx a lot. have a nice we
>
> greetz martin papadopoulos :-)
>
>
>   

(shameless plug mode)

You might want to look at cobbler (http://cobbler.et.redhat.com) for 
auto-managing your PXE environment.
It will keep you from having to maintain those config files, among other 
things, like providing nice fully-automatic Xen installation features.

(/shameless plug mode)

--Michael




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