Need assistance with PXE boot kernel panic

mishaparem

Hello everyone,

I'm looking for some help setting up a PXE boot server. I've got most of it down - I have a TFTP server that hands out the kernel and initrd images, but I can't seem to figure out how to add a rootfs image to the mix - I get a kernel panic. I posted on serverfault, and I was told that my kernel/initrd/rootfs images probably don't match up. How do I make sure that these three images are compatible with one another? I build the rootfs with debootstrap, and packaged it with mksquashfs. The kernel/initrd combo came from my host system (which is probably why they're not compatible with the rootfs image). I'm guessing I have to build a kernel/initrd combo in my debootstrap subdir so that it matches the rootfs, but I'm a little bit unsure as to how that is done.

Also, I pieced together the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default from about 10 different sources. I was hoping that someone could help me figure out how to configure it, or point me at some reading that would explain this config file in depth.

Best regards,

Misha