[Mageia-dev] PXE boot on cauldron failed

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 7 January 2013 12:18, Olivier Thauvin <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
> We use PXE to install computers, it works very fine for Mageia 2 but it
> failed with Cauldron with same parameters:
>
> LABEL manual64bits
>   KERNEL http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz
>   APPEND initrd=http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/isolinux/alt0/all.rdz automatic=method:http,ser:distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr,dir:/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/2/x86_64/,int:eth0,netw:dhcp vga=788
>
> and for cauldron:
>
> LABEL manual64bits
>   KERNEL http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/isolinux/alt0/vmlinuz
>   APPEND initrd=http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/isolinux/alt0/all.rdz automatic=method:http,ser:distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr,dir:/pub/linux/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/x86_64/,int:eth0,netw:dhcp vga=788
>
> I can see the end of kernel messages but I cannot see the first
> message...

not directly related, but why the "vga=788". Have you tried without it?
And without automatic, do you got stage1 menu?