Install with kernel issues

[Seth Yates]

I'm new to Cobbler but pretty familiar with Kickstart. I've been testing
out Cobbler on one PC using Virtualbox for the clients and all the
services on the host PC. Using a bridged network for the clients so they
can see the whole network. CentOS 6.2 x86_64 all round. Latest updates of
all involved software.

The problem I am having is that some kind of kernel issue is occurring
during build and when the client reboots it won't fully come up. The
screen shows several lines reading:

"FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64/modules.dep: No
such file or directory."

Then:

"Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!"

Booting the client into rescue I can see the last line of the
/root/install.log reads:

"/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 309:  2970 Killed          depmod -ae -F
/boot/System.map-$version $version
*** FINISHED INSTALLING PACKAGES ***"

Any thoughts on what may be going wrong or am I missing something? Thanks
in advance.

[Michael DeHaan]

Cobbler is just the install server, issues with the kernel/installer
itself should go elsewhere.

Perhaps start with:  http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Seth Yates  wrote:
> I'm new to Cobbler but pretty familiar with Kickstart. I've been testing
> out Cobbler on one PC using Virtualbox for the clients and all the
> services on the host PC. Using a bridged network for the clients so they
> can see the whole network. CentOS 6.2 x86_64 all round. Latest updates of
> all involved software.
>
> The problem I am having is that some kind of kernel issue is occurring
> during build and when the client reboots it won't fully come up. The
> screen shows several lines reading:
>
> "FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64/modules.dep: No
> such file or directory."
>
> Then:
>
> "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!"
>
> Booting the client into rescue I can see the last line of the
> /root/install.log reads:
>
> "/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 309:  2970 Killed          depmod -ae -F
> /boot/System.map-$version $version
> *** FINISHED INSTALLING PACKAGES ***"
>
> Any thoughts on what may be going wrong or am I missing something? Thanks
> in advance.
>
> cobbler mailing list
> [e-mail]
> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler

[Alex Ventura]

Seth Yates <seth <at> spoodie.com> writes:
> I'm new to Cobbler but pretty familiar with Kickstart. I've been testing
> out Cobbler on one PC using Virtualbox for the clients and all the
> services on the host PC. Using a bridged network for the clients so they
> can see the whole network. CentOS 6.2 x86_64 all round. Latest updates of
> all involved software.
>
> The problem I am having is that some kind of kernel issue is occurring
> during build and when the client reboots it won't fully come up. The
> screen shows several lines reading:
>
> "FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64/modules.dep: No
> such file or directory."
>
> Then:
>
> "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!"
>
> Booting the client into rescue I can see the last line of the
> /root/install.log reads:
>
> "/sbin/new-kernel-pkg: line 309:  2970 Killed          depmod -ae -F
> /boot/System.map-$version $version
> *** FINISHED INSTALLING PACKAGES ***"
>
> Any thoughts on what may be going wrong or am I missing something? Thanks
> in advance.
>
> cobbler mailing list
> cobbler <at> lists.fedorahosted.org
> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler

Hello!

I had this exact issue. In my case I was installing Centos 6.2 in a VMware VM 
using graphical mode. My VM had 768MB of RAM but I was setting up only 256MB of 
swap space. After loads of re-installations I solved this problem increasing my 
swap partition to 768MB.

I hope it helps you!

Regards,

Alex Ventura