On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 16:31 -0500, Chris Johns wrote: > Hi, > > I installed RH EL5 Beta 1 on a Dell 2650 system (dual CPU Xeon), and it > boots fine from disk using the GRUB bootloader. > > However, when I attempted to PXE boot it using the kernel that the > installer placed in /boot as the default kernel, along with an initrd > image that we custom-build using a procedure that works fine for ELAS3 > and ELAS4, PXE fails to recognize the kernel as a valid file. > > Normally, the compressed kernel (vmlinuz) looks like this: > > ELAS4u4 > # file vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.ELsmp > vmlinuz-2.6.9-42.ELsmp: x86 boot sector > > However: > > EL5b1 > # file vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5xen > vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2519.4.21.el5xen: gzip compressed data, from Unix, max > compression
Hi, you're using a xen-only image .. that ain't working with PXE.... Xen needs a special format kernel, PXE needs another one.. so I'd suggest that you use a non-xen kernel and it'll start working I suspect. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven _______________________________________________ rhelv5-beta-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-beta-list
