Bug 12530

Summary: RHL 6.2 bootnet.img IA kernel hangs during init.
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: steve.b.krig
Component: kernelAssignee: Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
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Version: 6.2CC: ken.crandall
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Description steve.b.krig 2000-06-19 16:04:44 UTC
We grabbed from rawhide and that does not fix the problem.  

This is preventing us from getting a working version of RHL to our WW 
sales force and customers.  We need a binary conatining this fix, verified 
by RH, posted on a RH support site with instructions on how to apply the 
fix to RHL 6.2.

Problem Details below:

-----Original Message-----
From: Erik Troan [ewt]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 4:07 PM
To: 'kickstart-list'
Subject: RE: kickstart - bootnet.img kernel hang



Sounds like a bug in the loader -- I suggest grabbing the pxelinux boot
loader from rawhide and trying it (the Intel PXE kernel loader has known
problems).

Erik

On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Krig, Steve B wrote:

> "Downloading Linux kernel image...
>  Downloading initrd image...
>  Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel."
> 
> Hangs here.  No more console output.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Troan [ewt]
> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2000 12:28 PM
> To: 'kickstart-list'
> Subject: Re: kickstart - bootnet.img kernel hang
> 
> 
> 
> What's hang mean? If the kernel starting up at all?
> 
> Erik
> 
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Krig, Steve B wrote:
> 
> > 
> > with RHL 6.2, we are not able to use kickstart for unattended installs
as
> > the kernel is hanging.
> > 
> > We are seeing the bootnet kernel hang after it is loaded/uncompressed
via
> > PXE.   
> > 
> >   > mount -o loop -t vfat /redhat-cdrom/images/bootnet.img /mnt/floppy
> >   > cp /mnt/floppy/vmlinuz /tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/linux.1
> >   > cp /mnt/floppy/initrd.img /tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-
install/linux.2
> > 
> > Can we get a kernel image fix?
> > 
> > thanks
> > -steve
> > 
> >

Comment 1 Ken Crandall 2000-06-19 17:36:34 UTC
All data captured in bug #12570  

Please close...

Ken

Comment 2 Matt Wilson 2000-07-03 20:45:43 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12570 ***