[Soekris] net4801 and hard drives

Tue Nov 21 23:10:38 UTC 2006

> 1. use PXE boot to run the installation of CentOS4.4 over the network

Currently i run a Debian GNU/Linux on it installed a year ago
with PXE boot. The Server was an OSX installation.
Currently i use lilo as boot-loader.

> 2. Installing it on the hard drive via a notebook computer with a
> Pentium class processor, then disabling the vga tty's and enabling the
> serial one (in inittab and in grub).

Well, the initrd installed on the device on this way was made for your
notebook hardware where it is no surprise that it fails.