Installing 'Sarge' using network boot
Hi all,
I'm trying to install Debian 'Sarge' on my new laptop (IBM X31). I
have neither floppy nor CD drives for the system, so I want to do a
net install using PXE. Some nice people have put instructions for
exactly this combination up on the web, so the combination appears to
work in general, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work for me. I'm
out of ideas, hence any help would be greatly appreciated. :)
Here's what I'm doing:
1) For PXE boot, I have setup a DHCP + TFTP server on a windows
machine.
2) I have downloaded vmlinuz and netboot-initrd.gz from the Debian
site. [1]
3) I took the pxelinux configuration file from one of the instruction
pages. See [2]. I suspect a problem here, so I've experimented with a
number of variations, but no luck!
4) When going into network boot, the system loads the kernel +
ram-disk, so step 1 was probably successful. The messages do not seem
to indicate any problems.
5) The last messages are:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 2063k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
... and that's the last it ever says. :-((
Any ideas or comments?
Thanks for taking the time.
Daniel
[1]ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/current/images/
[2] tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
label sarge
kernel vmlinuz
append load initrd=netboot-initrd.gz devfs=nomount console=tty0
ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram0
ipappend 1
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