On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 23:21 +0100, Morten Nilsen wrote: > Bruce Platt wrote: > >> what errors did you get? > > No errors. bzImage is loaded as verified by tcpump/ethereal, but blank > > screen afterwords. Nothing executes! Perhaps I have a misconfiguration in > > my default file in pxelinux.cfg? I note in yours that rather than > > specifiying an initrd.img you specify /sbin/init. It's not clear why. Can > > you explain? > > okay.. I think I just saw your problem. > you can't use an initrd with pxeboot.. > the kernel has no concept of networks at the point where it would load > the initrd.
Grub can be configured to load the initrd into ram, and then tell the kernel where it is located in memory. The kernel doesn't need to read the initrd from over the network. While I have not been able to use an initrd with a pxeboot recently (mainly because of problems with nash in the initrd, not with the kernel not being able to load it), I know this is possible. I have been able to successfully boot FC4, but not trustix, over pxe using grub. This is all outside any specific distribution. I highly suggest using grub as your pxe frontend (which itself can even be delivered via tftp), but that may require building a grub that supports your network card. -- Andy Bakun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ tsl-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trustix.org/mailman/listinfo/tsl-discuss
