INITRD: LOADING................
Mike
> I'm using Zfd 4 & Nw5.1 on Dell PowerEdge 2650...
>
> Got that problem on Dell Laptop & Desktop when I do a boot with PXE (on
> card or with the PXE-on-Disk), right after the download of linux.1 and
> linux.2:
>
> LOADLIN
> LOADING..............(lots of dots)
>
> Now reading INITRD:
> LOADING..............(lots of dots)
>
> and nothing, I need to power off the machine... I don't know why that
> stock there... I read on the forum that I'm not the only one that got
> that
> prob, but I did'nt saw a fix :(
>
> can anyone help me on that one ?
>
> Thx to take the time...
> Fred
I have the same problem, different hardware. White box PC, intel
SE440BX2 MB w/ latest bios, and 3c905b-tx network card. Locks at the
same place wether I chose the 'automatic' or the maint mode.
I also haven't seen any fixes mentioned, nor been able to find anything
at the Novell KB yet.
Thanks,
Mike
Marcus Breiden
> I have the same problem, different hardware. White box PC, intel
> SE440BX2 MB w/ latest bios, and 3c905b-tx network card. Locks at the
> same place wether I chose the 'automatic' or the maint mode.
could you post more information about the hardware as it looks like it
could be a problem with the kernel and the hardware..
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Mike
> On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:31:28 GMT, Mike wrote:
>
>
> >I have the same problem, different hardware. White box PC, intel
> >SE440BX2 MB w/ latest bios, and 3c905b-tx network card. Locks at the
> >same place wether I chose the 'automatic' or the maint mode.
>
>
> could you post more information about the hardware as it looks like it
> could be a problem with the kernel and the hardware..
What further hardware info would you like? Everything else with imaging
is working on the hardware, just not PXE-on-disk.
Intel SE440BX2 MB, w/ 128MB ram, P3-450.
I also get the same thing on another box, also 3c905 nic, but P2-300 on
a Brilliant-1 (P6I440BX/B1) MB w/128MB.
Thanks,
Mike
Marcus Breiden
> What further hardware info would you like? Everything else with imaging
> is working on the hardware, just not PXE-on-disk.
> Intel SE440BX2 MB, w/ 128MB ram, P3-450.
>
> I also get the same thing on another box, also 3c905 nic, but P2-300 on
> a Brilliant-1 (P6I440BX/B1) MB w/128MB.
so booting from floppy or cd will allow you to do imaging?
Any USB harddrives or cdroms installed?
Mike
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:53:27 GMT, Mike wrote:
>
>
> >What further hardware info would you like? Everything else with imaging
> >is working on the hardware, just not PXE-on-disk.
> >Intel SE440BX2 MB, w/ 128MB ram, P3-450.
> >
> >I also get the same thing on another box, also 3c905 nic, but P2-300 on
> >a Brilliant-1 (P6I440BX/B1) MB w/128MB.
>
>
> so booting from floppy or cd will allow you to do imaging?
Correct.
>
> Any USB harddrives or cdroms installed?
No, no USB devices of any sort. (image is NT, no usb support, so we
don't have any such devices)
Note: It happens when I have Zen set to use the PXE menu at all times.
I have not tried it when I have 'work to do' yet. I will try that and
see what happens, without the PXE menu turned on in Zen.
-Mike
Jan
with the newest from u3 patch.
looks like linux.2 file isn't properly unpacked.
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Marcus Breiden
> looks like linux.2 file isn't properly unpacked.
could be, nice catch.. :-)
Marcus Breiden
>> so booting from floppy or cd will allow you to do imaging?
>
> Correct.
>
>>
>> Any USB harddrives or cdroms installed?
>
> No, no USB devices of any sort. (image is NT, no usb support, so we
> don't have any such devices)
by any chance that you are using different versions of file on the server
and on the cd?
are they both from the same patch level?
Mike
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 20:08:28 GMT, Mike wrote:
>
>
> >>so booting from floppy or cd will allow you to do imaging?
> >
> >Correct.
> >
> >
> >>Any USB harddrives or cdroms installed?
> >
> >No, no USB devices of any sort. (image is NT, no usb support, so we
> >don't have any such devices)
>
>
> by any chance that you are using different versions of file on the server
> and on the cd?
>
> are they both from the same patch level?
I believe they are, I just recently created the pxe disk, I don't think
I had any different version unpacked anywhere that I could have gotten a
different one. (fresh install on the test hardware) I will double
check that though, after trying the u3 patch mentioned above.
Mike
> try to replace the files in the tftp folder of the server ( pxe boot
> files )
> with the newest from u3 patch.
>
> looks like linux.2 file isn't properly unpacked.
I'll give that a try and let you know.
Mike
I shutdown all the zen stuff, copied the tftp folder from the u3 to the
server (replacing existing) and I made a new disk with the pxe-on-disk
builder from the u3 update and then restarted zen (zfdstart). (shows
client V5.0r1 (build 95))
Now when I boot to the pxe menu (ctrl-alt) and try to enter maintenance
mode, I get the following:
Excecuting DNX: boot.dnx with parameters "bootzen5.bin"
E820 reports 000A0000 bytes of RAM (another machine shows as 07F9D400)
Warning: Not enough memory for boot image!
-Mike
Marcus Breiden
> Excecuting DNX: boot.dnx with parameters "bootzen5.bin"
>
> E820 reports 000A0000 bytes of RAM (another machine shows as 07F9D400)
> Warning: Not enough memory for boot image!
hmm, do you have enough ram? I think you need 128 MB..
Mike
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 16:16:08 GMT, Mike wrote:
>
>
> >Excecuting DNX: boot.dnx with parameters "bootzen5.bin"
> >
> >E820 reports 000A0000 bytes of RAM (another machine shows as 07F9D400)
> >Warning: Not enough memory for boot image!
>
>
> hmm, do you have enough ram? I think you need 128 MB..
Yes, sorry, forgot to add that to the message. Both have 128MB ram.
Marcus Breiden
>> hmm, do you have enough ram? I think you need 128 MB..
>
> Yes, sorry, forgot to add that to the message. Both have 128MB ram.
graphic card on board which shared ram? if you use a bootcd and go to the
maintenance prompt, what does img i say?
Mike
> On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 16:44:13 GMT, Mike wrote:
>
>
> >>hmm, do you have enough ram? I think you need 128 MB..
> >
> >Yes, sorry, forgot to add that to the message. Both have 128MB ram.
>
>
> graphic card on board which shared ram? if you use a bootcd and go to the
> maintenance prompt, what does img i say?
No shared ram, seperate AGP graphics cards. shows 128MB ram.
Marcus Breiden
>> graphic card on board which shared ram? if you use a bootcd and go to the
>> maintenance prompt, what does img i say?
>
> No shared ram, seperate AGP graphics cards. shows 128MB ram.
hmm, is the error comming before linux takes over.. in this case we would
have a DOS problem and this can only be handeled by NTS...
so a older version of ZFD got you to the linux prompt?
we could try a mix... all the old files except linux.1 and linux.2 from the
new patch...
otherwise I'm stuck..
Mike
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 19:29:23 GMT, Mike wrote:
>
>
> >>graphic card on board which shared ram? if you use a bootcd and go
> to the
> >>maintenance prompt, what does img i say?
> >
> >No shared ram, seperate AGP graphics cards. shows 128MB ram.
>
>
> hmm, is the error comming before linux takes over.. in this case we would
> have a DOS problem and this can only be handeled by NTS...
>
> so a older version of ZFD got you to the linux prompt?
>
> we could try a mix... all the old files except linux.1 and linux.2
> from the
> new patch...
>
> otherwise I'm stuck..
The older version got stuck loading the image (original thread problem)
I just tried a machine that supports PXE on builtin nic... I get the
following:
LOADLIN v1.6a.2 ..... not an imagefile,
Please enter name of kernel image file....
I'm going to try reverting back to the original I had (before trying the
u3 patch) and see what it reports.
-Mike
Mike
It appears to be a pxe-on-disk issue. A newer pc, that I just got my
hands on here, supports pxe on its internal nic, goes into maintenance
mode from pxe just fine.
The other PC using PXE-on-disk hangs when it should be unpacking the
kernel a couple blank lines after INITRD: LOADING and a screen full of
.....'s (using the u3 pxe-on-disk diskette, same as earlier version problem)
Unless you want to continue to try and solve it, I'm good with dropping
the issue. Real PXE is working, since we would need a disk for the
others anyway it isn't critical that PXE on Disk work.
-Mike
Marcus Breiden
> Unless you want to continue to try and solve it, I'm good with dropping
> the issue. Real PXE is working, since we would need a disk for the
> others anyway it isn't critical that PXE on Disk work
so it is the same hardware just a different nic?
haven't heard of that before... like I said I'm stuck...
if you are fine with it let it rest in peace...
Otherwise just start a new thread... :-)