Fedora Core: PXE install fails

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Fri Sep 26 18:59:15 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 13:30, Tonko de Rooy wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> We use PXE boot to install RH and it works great for any other
> version, including the previous beta1.
>  
> What we do is serve images/pxeboot/vmlinuz and
> images/pxeboot/initrd.img using PXELINUX 1.66
>  
> could not set new controlling tty
> trying to remount root filesystem read write... done
> mounting /tmp as ramfs... done
> Failed to read directory /oldtmp: No such file or directoryrunning
> install...
> running /sbin/loader
> install exited abnormally -- received signal 11
> sending termination signals...done

on the kernel boot line add:

ramdisk_size=8192

that will fix it - that one tripped me up yesterday too

-sv






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