On Wed, 13 May 2009, Tezyn Drasdin wrote:
Group,
I am trying to set up a PXE boot install setup for SL 53 using NFS. I have a
working PXE server, that I
am able to install Fedora, Oracle Unbreakable, Gentoo from using NFS for media
access.
I install SL53 using PXE and NFS, so this should work.
When I boot the workstation, everything appears to go fine (Welcome to
Scientific Linux, Choose your
Language, etc). But when I get to detecting/load the media, it fails on me,
giving me the error:
loader received SIGSEGV! Backtrace:
[0x8048cf4]
[0x4cf420]
[0x81a9858]
[0x805de62]
[0x806119a]
[0x8049326]
[0x804a9a3]
[0x81623c8]
[0x8048131]
install exited abnormally [1/1]
sending termination signals... done
sending kill signals... done
disabling swap ...
unmounting filesystem ...
/mnt/runtime done
disabling /dev/loop0
/mnt/source2 done
disabling /dev/loop1
/proc done
/dev/pts done
/sys done
/tmp/ramfs done
/mnt/source done
you man safely reboot your system
Are there any other messages on other virtual consoles
- type <Ctrl><Alt><f2> , <Ctrl><Alt><f3> etc. ?
I don't believe that this is related to the NFS connection itself, because I am
able to install the
other RHE derived systems, using this server, and if I don't point to the
correct directory, it does
successfully see that there isn't the correct media in that folder. I believe
that this means that the
directory is being successfully mounted, and read, which leads me to believe it
is an issue with the
media itself.
I have tested this with both the dvd and the 7 disc cd media, on both physical
hardware and esxi virtual
machine, with exactly the same results. I have checked the md5sum on all of
the media against the
listed checksums and all pass. I have also checked the hash of the initrd.img
and vmlinuz that I am
using against those in the /isolinux and /images/pxeboot/ directories, and all
3 are the same.
Assuming that you can install from the disks, my first guess
would be that the network driver on the initrd doesn't like your
ethernet device (may be fine when quite but fail under load?).
You could try the install with a different model of ethernet card.
Once installed the updated kernel may support the orginal/onboard
ethernet.
I've watched people grovel around and update drivers inside
the initrd.img so that you don't have to do this for all your new
machines, but can't say how they did it.
--
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
[email protected] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
