[cobbler] second system won't boot
Cameron Regan
cregan at dimaxperformance.com
Mon Sep 22 20:06:13 UTC 2014
Hi Jeremy,
I had a very similar problem.
What got me working is for the kernel line add ksdevice=link.
Cam
On 22/09/14 04:00 PM, Jeremy Mordkoff wrote:
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> On 09/22/2014 03:08 PM, Alan Evangelista wrote:
>> On 09/22/2014 03:31 PM, Jeremy Mordkoff wrote:
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>>> I have cobbler up and running and I've installed to my first system
>>> at least a dozen times. The first system had two CPUs and 16 GB RAM.
>>>
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>>> Now I'm trying a mass deployment. These new systems all have 1 CPU
>>> and 8 GB RAM.
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>>> The install fails on the new systems. I compared the output from
>>> cobbler system report for the two systems and except for the obvious
>>> differences in names and addressing, everything else is the same.
>>>
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>>> It drops down into an emergency shell right after
>>>
>>> Warning: Could not boot
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>>> Warning: /dev/root does not exist
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>>>
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>> You can use the same profile for all systems, you just need one
>> Cobbler system object for each system.
>> You must fill network data in each Cobbler system object.
>>
>> What Linux distribution are you trying to install? I suppose you are
>> not providing
>> system network setup in kernel options, in which case the
>> installation kernel will
>> use DHCP to setup network. I have already seen this non-intuitive
>> error message
>> in RHEL/Fedora installations, its root cause is that DHCP was unable
>> to get network
>> information from DHCP server after netbooting and before starting OS
>> installation.
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> Fedora 20
> I have a new profile for the new system.
> I do believe this is a DHCP issue, but I cannot determine why this
> system is behaving differently than the first one. The two are the
> same except the second unit does not have the second CPU populated and
> it only has 8 GB ram...neither of which I would think would affect the
> network.
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> DHCP clearly is working because the PXE boot client was able to get an
> address. So why can't linux?
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