Harald.Milz@computacenter.com wrote:

Hi,

since my notebook's CD-ROM drive is dying slowly I tried to install SuSE Linux 9.0 Prof. from my existing PXE/DHCP/TFTP server which already has working configs for 8.0 and 8.2:

label 8.0 kernel kernel-8.0 append initrd=initrd-8.0 acpi=off apm=off install="nfs://192.168.20.1/pub/suse/SuSE-8.0"

label 8.2 kernel kernel-8.2 append initrd=initrd-8.2 acpi=off apm=off install="nfs://192.168.20.1/pub/suse/SuSE-8.2"

As usual, copied boot/loader/linux and boot/loader/initrd to /tftpboot and added a config entry to pxelinux.cfg/default:

label 9.0 kernel kernel-9.0 append initrd=initrd-9.0 ramdisk_size=65536 showopts ide=nodma acpi=off apm=off install="nfs://192.168.20.1/pub/suse/SuSE-9.0"

which, apart from some additional options taken from the CD isolinux.cfg file, are identical to the ones above. The additional options don't change any of the descibed behaviour, which is:

- notebook boots via pxelinux just fine, I get my text menu, enter 9.0 - kernel unpacks, and ... - the screen is an 80x25 chaos of ASCII characters with various attributes, like blink, etc. Machine stops. Nothing happens. It looks as if the kernel was unpacked into the EGA video memory region at segment b800.

Any clue what happens?

Are you using pxelinux.0 from 9.0? If yes, could you try latest from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-2.08.tar.gz for example! Someone reported pxelinux.0 in 9 is faulty, but i still did not verify that. Anas

Mit freundlichen Gruessen - Best regards

Harald Milz Senior Consultant

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