Group,
I am trying to set up a PXE boot install setup for SL 53 using NFS. I have
a working PXE server, that I am able to install Fedora, Oracle Unbreakable,
Gentoo from using NFS for media access.
When I boot the workstation, everything appears to go fine (Welcome to
Scientific Linux, Choose your Language, etc). But when I get to
detecting/load the media, it fails on me, giving me the error:
loader received SIGSEGV! Backtrace:
[0x8048cf4]
[0x4cf420]
[0x81a9858]
[0x805de62]
[0x806119a]
[0x8049326]
[0x804a9a3]
[0x81623c8]
[0x8048131]
install exited abnormally [1/1]
sending termination signals... done
sending kill signals... done
disabling swap ...
unmounting filesystem ...
/mnt/runtime done
disabling /dev/loop0
/mnt/source2 done
disabling /dev/loop1
/proc done
/dev/pts done
/sys done
/tmp/ramfs done
/mnt/source done
you man safely reboot your system
I don't believe that this is related to the NFS connection itself, because I
am able to install the other RHE derived systems, using this server, and if
I don't point to the correct directory, it does successfully see that there
isn't the correct media in that folder. I believe that this means that the
directory is being successfully mounted, and read, which leads me to believe
it is an issue with the media itself.
I have tested this with both the dvd and the 7 disc cd media, on both
physical hardware and esxi virtual machine, with exactly the same results.
I have checked the md5sum on all of the media against the listed checksums
and all pass. I have also checked the hash of the initrd.img and vmlinuz
that I am using against those in the /isolinux and /images/pxeboot/
directories, and all 3 are the same.
Going of the https://www.scientificlinux.org/ it appears that this is a
valid install method, but the answer is evading me. Is this a common
problem, and if so, could someone point me in the direction of the solution.
Thanks in Advance,
Tezyn
