[CentOS] Disable autoneg on r8169?

Two problems I hope to solve: 1. The switch being used has autoneg off and has port set to 100 full duplex. 2. Many times NIC fails to come up properly during PXE boot: r8169: eth0: link down ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready I can't use ethtool to disable autoneg because the nic drive

[CentOS] Unplugging DVI causes Disabling IRQ #11

I have some new PC hardware I'm using with the Intel H67 chipset. I created a bzImage I use for a PXE environment for a recovery mode, installing OS images, etc. The new mobo doesn't have a VGA port but instead DVI. Everytime I unplug the DVI cable it seems to cause "Disabling IRQ #11". After t

[CentOS] chroot from 32-bit to 64-bit filesystem?

I have a 32-bit PXE environment and I want to chroot to a CentOS x64 root filesystem. Of course that doesn't work. Any tricks or hacks that would allow me to do that? Currently I get the error: chroot: /bin/bash: Exec format error What if I updated my PXE environment to 64-bit. Could I then c