[ptxdist] Booting my new ptxdist fails

[ptxdist] Booting my new ptxdist fails

[Matt]

Now that I've successfully built my kernel and initrd I have attempted to
boot to it via pxe. I'm using ipxe (previously gpxe) to accomplish this.

After loading my kernel and initrd and using the boot command the monitor
flashes black for one second and then goes back to showing the ipxe output
with nothing but a blinking cursor on a new line.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what this could be? Is it possibly an
output issue with the kernel or is it something more serious like my kernel
or initrd is broken and it won't load? Is there a way to output more
verbosely so I can tell what is going on?


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Re: [ptxdist] Booting my new ptxdist fails

[Jürgen Beisert]

Hi Matt,

On Tuesday 06 August 2013 20:02:50 Matt wrote:
> Now that I've successfully built my kernel and initrd I have attempted to
> boot to it via pxe. I'm using ipxe (previously gpxe) to accomplish this.

When you are using PXE I guess you are running an x86 target.

> After loading my kernel and initrd and using the boot command the monitor
> flashes black for one second and then goes back to showing the ipxe output
> with nothing but a blinking cursor on a new line.

Does your system still have a serial interface? Maybe you should use this 
interface as the kernel's console to be able to see more what really happens.

> Does anyone have any suggestions on what this could be? Is it possibly an
> output issue with the kernel or is it something more serious like my kernel
> or initrd is broken and it won't load? Is there a way to output more
> verbosely so I can tell what is going on?

Add the kernel command line parameters "debug" and "earlyprintk" (with this 
feature enabled in the kernel's config menu). Refer the in-kernel 
documentation "Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt" for further details.

Regards,
Juergen

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