Mint linux 19.1 Cinnamon install fail

[rockinhc]

This doesn’t happen when I try to mount the real iso on esxi 6.7.

My iPXE menu settings is mirrored from @george1421 tutorial link

[george1421]

Are you installing LM 19.1 or a later release?

[rockinhc]

@george1421 I’m using the LM 19.1 cinnamon 64bit

[george1421]

@rockinhc I don’t have that setup on my fog server any more, I’m downloading 19.2 at the moment. If its like ubuntu you need to make sure you are using the netboot kernels and ints for nfs loading of the OS.

[rockinhc]

@george1421 Ok, I’ve also downloaded 19.2 and will try too. :D. Thank you for help1

[george1421]

@rockinhc Fortunately/Unfortunately it works as advertised.

Here are the steps.

1. Copied the lm iso to /images.
2. Ran through this script

mkdir -p /images/os/mint/19.2
mkdir -p /tftpboot/mint/19.2

mount -o loop -t iso9660 /images/linuxmint-19.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso /mnt/loop

cp -R /mnt/loop/* /images/os/mint/19.2
umount /mnt/loop

cp /images/os/mint/19.2/casper/vmlinuz /tftpboot/mint/19.2
cp /images/os/mint/19.2/casper/initrd.lz /tftpboot/mint/19.2

Pasted this in as parameters

kernel tftp://${fog-ip}/mint/19.2/vmlinuz
initrd tftp://${fog-ip}/mint/19.2/initrd.lz
imgargs vmlinuz root=/dev/nfs boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=${fog-ip}:/images/os/mint/19.2/ locale=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us toram quiet splash
boot || goto MENU

Spun up a new (bios) vSphere client VM - 1 vCPU, 4GB ram 30GB disk and pxe booted into this:

[rockinhc]

It works! Thank you @george1421

[george1421]

@rockinhc Ok so the million canadian peso question is, what is different between what you had and what you have now? (other than now works)

[rockinhc]

I’m using 19.2 now. ‍️

I could re-exact 19.1 iso and double check.

[rockinhc]

Yeah, I still get the same error on 19.1. It’s not a problem for me since 19.2 works. I did re-exact the 19.1 iso and retried your steps.

[george1421]

@rockinhc OK thank you. We’ll just move forward. I’ll update the tutorial for LM 19.2 and we’ll call it all good then. Thank you for confirming.