[fedora-arm] Fwd: Help!Failed to find a suitable stage1 device when using PXE installation.

[David A. Marlin]

On 12/27/2014 06:19 PM, Brooks Hu wrote:
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Brooks Hu* <brooks.hu at gmail.com <mailto:brooks.hu at gmail.com>>
> Date: Friday, December 26, 2014
> Subject: Help!Failed to find a suitable stage1 device when using PXE 
> installation.
> To: arm at lists.fedoraproject.org <mailto:arm at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying automatic PXE installation (Fedora 21 for AARCH64) on my 
> Mustang board, but looks like kickstart can't work.
>
> Here comes the detail:
>
> Starting installer, one moment...
> find_file: stat /proc/device-tree/chosen/bootpath, No such file or 
> directory
> anaconda 21.48.21-1 for Fedora-Server 21 started.
>  * installation log files are stored in /tmp during the installation
>  * shell is available on TTY2
>  * when reporting a bug add logs from /tmp as separate text/plain 
> attachments
> 10:26:29 Not asking for VNC because of an automated install
> Starting automated install......
> Generating updated storage configuration
> storage configuration failed: failed to find a suitable stage1 device
> ================================================================================
> Installation
>
>  1) [x] Language settings                 2) [!] Timezone settings
>         (English (United States))  (Timezone is not set.)
>  3) [x] Installation source               4) [!] Software selection
>         (ftp://192.168.1.1/F21/)                 (Nothing selected)
>  5) [!] Installation Destination          6) [x] Network configuration
>         (No disks selected)                      (Wired (eth0) connected)
>  7) [!] Root password                     8) [!] User creation
>         (Password is not set.)                   (No user will be created)
> Not enough space in filesystems for the current software selection. An 
> additional 2861.02 MiB is needed.
>   Please make your choice from above ['q' to quit | 'b' to begin 
> installation |
> UEFI version is 1.1.0-rh-0.13
>
> Here comes the kick start config file(I modified based on a sample 
> from certain website):

Note that the installation options indicate: 4) [!] Software selection 
(Nothing selected) and 5) [!] Installation Destination (No disks 
selected), which implies anaconda is not seeing (or accepting) some of 
the options in your kickstart.  Please look in the logs in /tmp to find 
any errors.

There are some things in you kickstart that I am not familiar with, such as:

   vznetcfg --net=virt_network1:eth0
   vztturlmap $FS_SERVER http://myrepository.com
   nosfxtemplate
   %eztmplates --cache

and the following just look wrong for an aarch64 install:

   centos-6-x86_64
   centos-6-x86
   mailman-centos-6-x86_64
   mailman-centos-6-x86

I would try a more "standard" Fedora kickstart install first to make 
sure the repos, etc. are working, and then try adding the 'custom' 
config options to see what breaks.

Attached is an example kickstart I have successfully used for 
provisioning a Mustang board.


d.marlin
========

>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> text
> install
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> part efi --fstype=efi --size=300 --ondisk=sda
> part /boot --fstype=ext4 --size=512 --ondisk=sda
> part / --fstype=ext4 --size=20096 --ondisk=sda
> part /vz --fstype=ext4 --size=40768 --ondisk=sda
> part swap --size=4000
> bootloader --location=partition --ondisk=sda
> network --bootproto dhcp
> rootpw root
> auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
> timezone --utc America/New_York
> reboot
> vznetcfg --net=virt_network1:eth0
> vztturlmap $FS_SERVER http://myrepository.com
> nosfxtemplate
> %eztmplates --cache
> centos-6-x86_64
> centos-6-x86
> mailman-centos-6-x86_64
> mailman-centos-6-x86
>
> %packages
> @base
> @core
> @vz
> @ps
> %end
>
> I have tried all kinds of option combination, also deleted all the 
> partitions, but it still can't work. Any suggestions/comments are 
> welcomed!
>
> Best Regards,
> Brooks
>
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