Kickstart Installation panics during installation on Fujitsu Primergy

[Lenhardt, Matthias]

Hello *,

I have a strange problem while trying to kickstart a Fujitsu Primergy RX200 S8 with cobbler to install CentOS 7. My cobbler instance came with Spacewalk 2.4, which I use to install and manage our CentOS systems. Generally automatic installation of CentOS 6 and 7 works very well with many VMware VMs and some hardware based systems.

Last week I had to reinstall two of our rare Fujitsu Primergys and was booting them from ISO image, which I build with "cobbler buildiso ..." command. Unfortunatelly the system suddenly resets itself quite early during the installation phase. The last output I can see on the srceen is the following:

[ OK ]   Started dracut initqueue hook.
            Starting dracut pre-mount hook...
[ OK ]   Started dracut pre-mount hook.
[ OK ]   Reached target initrd Root File System.
            Starting Reload Configuration from the Real Root...
[ OK ]   Started Reload Configuration from the Real Root.
[ OK ]   Reached target Initrd File Systems.
            Starting dracut mount hook...
[ 19.353791]      EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[ OK ]   Started dracut mount hook.
[ OK ]   Reached target Initrd Default Target.

Than the system makes a reset and boots again ...

Could anybody tell me, at which state of the boot process this happens and evt. give me a hint what could be the reason for the reset.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards

Matthias Lenhardt
Systemadministrator, BITMARCK Beratung

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[Alastair Munro]

Hi

Doesn't look like a cobbler issue. Initrd is the ram disk image that 
contains kernel drivers for the hardware. I suspect you are missing a 
driver for your hardware. In these instances I would boot off a standard 
OS iso and see if you can get into rescue mode. Also you should try 
centos 7.2 which is the latest version, and maybe centos 6.7 which is 
very mature now and more likely to accommodate different hardware 
combinations than centos 7, which is still pretty new.

Alastair Munro

On 2016-03-21 10:11, Lenhardt, Matthias wrote:
> Hello *,
>
> I have a strange problem while trying to kickstart a Fujitsu Primergy
> RX200 S8 with cobbler to install CentOS 7. My cobbler instance came
> with Spacewalk 2.4, which I use to install and manage our CentOS
> systems. Generally automatic installation of CentOS 6 and 7 works very
> well with many VMware VMs and some hardware based systems.
>
> Last week I had to reinstall two of our rare Fujitsu Primergys and was
> booting them from ISO image, which I build with „cobbler buildiso
> …" command. Unfortunatelly the system suddenly resets itself quite
> early during the installation phase. The last output I can see on the
> srceen is the following:
>
> [ OK ] Started dracut initqueue hook.
>
> Starting dracut pre-mount hook...
>
> [ OK ] Started dracut pre-mount hook.
>
> [ OK ] Reached target initrd Root File System.
>
> Starting Reload Configuration from the Real Root…
>
> [ OK ] Started Reload Configuration from the Real Root.
>
> [ OK ] Reached target Initrd File Systems.
>
> Starting dracut mount hook…
>
> [ 19.353791] EXT4-fs (dm-0): mounted filesystem with ordered data
> mode. Opts: (null)
>
> [ OK ] Started dracut mount hook.
>
> [ OK ] Reached target Initrd Default Target.
>
> Than the system makes a reset and boots again …
>
> Could anybody tell me, at which state of the boot process this happens
> and evt. give me a hint what could be the reason for the reset.
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Regards
>
> Matthias Lenhardt
>  Systemadministrator, BITMARCK Beratung
>
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