Re: [Soekris] Help using PXE to load CentOS 6 onto net6501

2013-07-17 Thread Noah Miller
Unfortunately, the result was the same even with this flag on: the PXELINUX banner, then some garbled text at the top of the screen, then nothing. How long did you wait? Did you confirm that the PXE stack was getting both the kernel and the initramfs over TFTP? Good call to heck for that,

Re: [Soekris] Help using PXE to load CentOS 6 onto net6501

2013-07-09 Thread Noah Miller
Hi All - Thanks for all your responses. This is correct. Add pcie_aspm=off to your kernel boot cmdline and that should resolve the issue. Unfortunately, the result was the same even with this flag on: the PXELINUX banner, then some garbled text at the top of the screen, then nothing. I also

Re: [Soekris] Help using PXE to load CentOS 6 onto net6501

2013-07-09 Thread loppefaaret
Back when i tried all that fancy stuff on my 5501, i also ran into all sorts of trouble... so i limited the involved functions; i did not seed the base installer from my own httpd... i did not use the ks.cfg...(unattended install) i adjusted to only use 9600 baud rate all over i just setup a

Re: [Soekris] Help using PXE to load CentOS 6 onto net6501

2013-07-08 Thread Chris Wilson
Hi Noah, On Sun, 7 Jul 2013, Noah Miller wrote: I'm new to Soekris hardware.  I just got a net6501-70 (v1.41c) that has a 32GB mSATA ssd installed in it, and I want to load it with CentOS 6.4.  I'm trying to use PXE to do this, but I haven't been successful thus far. The net6501 is able to

Re: [Soekris] Help using PXE to load CentOS 6 onto net6501

2013-07-08 Thread Nick Brown
Unless something has changed since I did this, your network connectivity is probably dying during install due to the network driver included in the anaconda kernel. There's been a small amount of traffic about that bug on this list; some people have indicated that you may have luck installing if

Re: [Soekris] Help using PXE to load CentOS 6 onto net6501

2013-07-08 Thread Kyle Brantley
On 7/8/2013 9:00 AM, Nick Brown wrote: Unless something has changed since I did this, your network connectivity is probably dying during install due to the network driver included in the anaconda kernel. There's been a small amount of traffic about that bug on this list; some people have