Hi,
I was installing FC2 on my VIA Epia M10000 board (VIA C3 CPU) through PXE (because isolinux complains about a buggy bios), and was experiencing the kernel reboot-on-load problem.
After replacing vmlinuz with vmlinuz from 2.6.6-1.383.i586, it boots fine and starts up the installer, but now the installer can't find my network card drivers (for installation over FTP). I tried extracting initrd, extracting modules.cgz and copying in the relevant .ko files from the 2.6.6-1.383.i586 RPM, but it doesn't seem to work - loader complains about cpio header. (Sorry I don't have an exact error message, but it scrolls by pretty quickly before the Installer starts.)
I was wondering whether anyone could easily build vmlinuz and initrd.img for pxeboot for 2.6.6-1.383, or already have a copy. If so, I would greatly appreciate a copy!
(I don't have an existing fc2 environment where I can run the anaconda-runtime scripts.)
Thanks, Guan
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 11:40:28PM +0200, Guan Yang wrote:
initrd, extracting modules.cgz and copying in the relevant .ko files from the 2.6.6-1.383.i586 RPM, but it doesn't seem to work - loader complains about cpio header. (Sorry I don't have an exact error message, but it scrolls by pretty quickly before the Installer starts.)
If you get c3boot.iso from people.redhat.com/arjan it has a 358 module compatible kernel that boots on the VIA C3. You can either boot off that or use the kernel from it with PXE
After the install you will need to either do a rescue boot or PXE boot with the right rootfs to install the new kernel
On May 25, 2004, Guan Yang guan@unicast.org wrote:
loader complains about cpio header
You probably chose the wrong cpio format. Make sure you run cpio -o -H crc to create the modules cpio file.