That explains it. I use an older version of cobbler that doesn't support lzma, I made it a gzip file and all is happy.
Thanks On 2/17/12, Pat Riehecky <[email protected]> wrote: > For 6.2 I believe the initrd is an lzma archive.[1] > > As a test, on the distribution servers I have the following hashes > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/i386/os/images/pxeboot/ > b3a92e0d122d437d706a877bcce03d29 initrd.img > > http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/6.2/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/ > e00a2019af88a21aeb7c49e3181e0c12 initrd.img > > Pat > > [1] upstream bug to get file to recognize lzma archives is bz#791343 > > On 02/17/2012 12:11 PM, Jolynn Schmidt wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I tried to pxeboot a 6.2 image using the files from the DVD iso in >> images/pxeboot but I think that the initrd.img is bad (I get a kernel >> panic). looking into it more it seems that the initrd.img is not a >> gziped cpio file. I confirmed the md5sum after I copy the file to >> my local machines but it is not seen as gzip file. >> >> # pwd >> /mnt/tmp/images/pxeboot >> >> # md5sum initrd.img >> 881250abc9f24ecb80e1fcee813a69f6 initrd.img >> >> # cp initrd.img /tmp/test/ >> >> # md5sum /tmp/test/initrd.img >> 881250abc9f24ecb80e1fcee813a69f6 /tmp/test/initrd.img >> >> # file /tmp/test/initrd.img >> /tmp/test/initrd.img: data >> >> # mv initrd.img initrd.img.gz >> >> # gunzip initrd.img.gz >> >> gunzip: initrd.img.gz: not in gzip format >> >> Thanks, >> Jolynn > > > -- > Pat Riehecky > Scientific Linux Developer > >
