[Mageia-dev] PXE boot on cauldron failed

Wed Jan 9 04:20:25 CET 2013

* Thierry Vignaud (thierry.vignaud at gmail.com) wrote:
+> On 7 January 2013 12:18, Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+> > We use PXE to install computers, it works very fine for Mageia 2 but it
+> > failed with Cauldron with same parameters:
+> >
+> > LABEL manual64bits
+> >   KERNEL http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz
+> >   APPEND initrd=http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/isolinux/alt0/all.rdz automatic=method:http,ser:distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr,dir:/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/,int:eth0,netw:dhcp vga=788
+> >
+> > and for cauldron:
+> >
+> > LABEL manual64bits
+> >   KERNEL http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz
+> >   APPEND initrd=http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/isolinux/alt0/all.rdz automatic=method:http,ser:distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr,dir:/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/,int:eth0,netw:dhcp vga=788
+> >
+> > I can see the end of kernel messages but I cannot see the first
+> > message...
+> 
+> not directly related, but why the "vga=788". Have you tried without it?
+> And without automatic, do you got stage1 menu?
+
+It's working now, don't know why it was failing...
+
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+
+Olivier Thauvin
+CNRS  -  LATMOS
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