Salut Michel,
as a data point: SL7.1 PXE/kickstart installs work for me, including XFS. We're mirroring the distro with rsync too (the tree, not the ISOs) and use the kernel/initrd from os/images/pxelinux.
Cheers,
Stephan
On Apr 28, 2015, at 18:43 , Michel Jouvin wrote:
> Thanks Connie!
>
> I am pretty sure there is something wrong on my side but I cannot find what. This morning I downloaded again 7.1 distrib (rsync) and I have still the same problem. But a collegue of mine did the same and it works for him. He sent me his kickstart file and using exactly the same one (except the url to the distrib) I still have the problem...
>
> Installing from 7.0 (with errata) works...
>
> I cannot imagine that this problem is impacted by the firmware... I never saw such a weird problem! I dont understand where the /lib/modules/3.10.0.123 can come from when booting 7.1 vmlinuz+initrd.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michel
>
> Le 28/04/2015 18:38, Connie Sieh a écrit :
>> I will research this.
>>
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>> On Fri, 24 Apr 2015, Michel Jouvin wrote:
>>
>>> I double-checked the kernel version used and the kernel version of the=20
>>> modules provided by initrd (using lsinitrd, I should have done it=20
>>> before) with SL 7.1: in fact, they are both the same, 3.10.0.229. But=20
>>> when PXE booting vmlinuz+initrd, I end up with kernel modules for=20
>>> 3.10.0.123 (version from 7.0) in /lib/modules... How this is possible? I=20
>>> removed the initrd file checked with lsinitrd to ensure that I was=20
>>> getting an error when booting about the missing file so I am really=20
>>> using this initrd file...
>>>
>>> I am lost... Any idea is welcome!
>>>
>>> Michel
>>>
>>> Le 24/04/2015 17:52, Michel Jouvin a =C3=A9crit :
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I don't know if this is related in some ways to the other recent=20
>>>> thread about "SL 7.1, PXE install". I'm struggling with SL7.1 (and I=20
>>>> have the same pb with CentOS 7.1) when trying to do a PXE install of a=20
>>>> machine using the last versions of images/pxeboot/vmlinuz and=20
>>>> initrd.img. The install fails when trying to set the default=20
>>>> filesystem type to XFS (that I don't use on this machine) because the=20
>>>> xfs module is not found. Looking at console (ALT/F2), I saw that the=20
>>>> kernel version provided by vmlinuz (uname -r) is not matching the=20
>>>> kernel version for which modules are provided in initrd=20
>>>> (/lib/modules). If I take vmlinuz and initrd from SL7.0 I don't see=20
>>>> the problem (but I am not sure I can install 7.1 booting with=20
>>>> vmlinuz/initrd from 7.0).
>>>>
>>>> Is it expected ? Am I doing a trivial mistake ? Or is there an issue ?
>>>
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