Thanks Sam for your help - I try to get as much standard software from RH as possible to work. How big are the changes of the dhcp and tftp server? As far as I understood the FAQ and HOWTOs correctly, you can use for pxelinux the standard dhcp server but you have to switch to a different tftp-server - correct?
Joachim Am Mon, 2002-09-09 um 00.30 schrieb Samuel Flory: > On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 09:21, Joachim Kunze wrote: > > Currently I'm playing around with PXE boot and my Dell Optiplex GX150 > > clients and I always end up in a situation, where the PXE-kernel is > > downloaded from the PXE bootserver and the PXE client boots the > > PXE-kernel (provided by the Red Hat from the CD1 in /images/pxeboot/), > > but I always receive a kernel-panic message as follows: > > Kernel panic: Unable to mount root fs on 09:02 > > I assume, that the initrd and the ramdisk couldn't be loaded, but why? > > On the PXE bootserver, the pxe deamon crashes and I have to restart the > > deamon. > > I've tested RHL 7.3 and RHL beta (null) with the same results. > > The pxe server from RH is really over kill, and really hard to > configure correctly. I prefer to use pxelinux as it works with the > dhcp, and tftp server in redhat with minimal changes. > > http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php > -- > Make sure your best systems look as bad > as possible from the outside. > (The Third Rule of Hardware Acquisition) > Sam Flory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
