On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 16:26, Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Ed Spencer <Ed_Spencer at umanitoba.ca> > wrote: > > I'm having difficulties with jumpstart and nv114. Actually I have had > > difficulties since > > nv97 which was the last build in which I was able to do a jumpstart install. > > > > I'm installing on a VMWare ESX virtual machine. > > > > I'll illustrate my problems with a simple network boot example. > > > > I select this entry from my menu.lst file: > > title S11_nv114 Network boot text console single user (VGA) > > kernel I86PC.S11_nv114/platform/i86pc/kernel/unix -s > > module /I86PC.S11_nv114/x86.miniroot > > > > And this is what happens: > > ......................................................................... > > Booting 'S11_nv114 Network boot text console single user (VGA)' > > > > kernel I86PC.S11_nv114/platform/i86pc/kernel/unix -s > > [Multiboot-elf, <0xc00000:0x109d4:0x0>, <0x400000:0xd68d4:0x0>, > > <0x800000:0x > > 9518:0x3e1d0>, shtab=0xc11370, entry=0xc00000] > > medule /I86PC.S11_nw114/x86.miniroot > > Is that "module" or "medule"? Sorry its "module". Its vmware so I HAD TO "type" the output from the console.
I've tried many iterations of the commands in the menu.lst including using the kernel$ and module$ and adding $ISADIR. What seems to be happening is the kernel loads but when x86.miniroot begins to load I get "Error 25: Disk Read Error". Ed > -- > Mike Gerdts > http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ -- Ed Spencer http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fastedy UNIX System Administrator Academic Computing and Networking EMail: Ed_Spencer at UManitoba.CA The University of Manitoba Telephone: (204) 474-8311 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
