[cobbler] second system won't boot

Alan Evangelista alanoe at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Sep 22 20:56:17 UTC 2014


On 09/22/2014 04:49 PM, Jeremy wrote:
>
> DHCP clearly is working because the PXE boot client was able to get an 
> address. So why can't linux?
>
> Are there any tricks to debugging stuff after the 'Reached target 
> basic system' message? 


If you have multiple network interfaces in the system, installation 
kernel/initrd may be trying to
get network info for a network interface which was not used to netboot 
and is not defined in DHCP server conf
file, that would explain why netboot works and network setup via DHCP not.

If that is not the case, this requires more debugging. I'd start running 
dhclient on dracut shell if it is available
after you get that error msg so that you can verify if getting network 
setup via DHCP is indeed the problem.


Regards,
Alan Evangelista



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