[mythtv-users] PXE Network Boot

Mitch Gore mitchell.gore at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 15:25:30 UTC 2008


>  Did you ever get it to boot in VMware?  I've been trying to test mine
>  using VMware but can not get it to finish booting.  It finds my image
>  and loads the kernel.  It gets to Starting udev  pauses for a while then
>  states that it is taking to long and will continue in the background.
>  The system continues to boot and gets to the point where I believe it
>  should give me the login in prompt but after waiting for a while it
>  displays init: "1" respawning too fast.  I get this for 1 thru 6.  These
>  just start repeating every 5 min. or so.
>
>  Any help would be appreciated.
>
>  Chris


I never got that respawning error.  I used the fedora netboot to turn
my filesystem that i rsync'ed from the running install to convert the
filesystem to pxe/netboot.  Once i got VMware to start loading the
kernel i just tried it on my sytem and it "just worked"

Mitchell


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