Bug 1329613

Summary: bananapi: unable to pxe boot
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lukas Brabec <lbrabec>
Component: dracutAssignee: dracut-maint-list
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 24CC: dracut-maint-list, harald, jonathan, kparal, lbrabec, pwhalen, robatino, zbyszek
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Whiteboard: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F24_bugs#Bananapi-pxe
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Last Closed: 2016-04-25 09:01:33 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Lukas Brabec 2016-04-22 11:26:16 UTC 
Created attachment 1149726 [details]
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I'm not able to do PXE boot on Banana Pi. Initrd, kernel and dtb file are loaded as always and system starts to boot. Then it hangs for a while when systemd reaches target basic system (see screenshot 1). After that I see long list of 
warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts. Finally I got message "could not boot" and "/dev/root does not exist" and dracut shell is shown but for some reason keyboard doesn't work (see screenshot 2).

The vmlinuz is from 2016-04-13 and initrd from 2016-04-21. PXE configuration:
  KERNEL Fedora/24/latest/armhfp/vmlinuz
  INITRD Fedora/24/latest/armhfp/initrd.img
  FDT    Fedora/24/latest/armhfp/dtb/sun7i-a20-bananapi.dtb
  APPEND inst.repo=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/24/Everything/armhfp/os/ console=ttyAMA0 console=tty0
Comment 1 Lukas Brabec 2016-04-22 11:26:40 UTC 
Created attachment 1149727 [details]
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Comment 2 Fedora Blocker Bugs Application 2016-04-22 11:50:08 UTC 
Proposed as a Blocker for 24-beta by Fedora user lbrabec using the blocker tracking app because:

 This bug violates beta criterion: Direct kernel boot - It must be possible to install by booting the installation kernel directly (including via PXE) and correctly specifying a remote source for the installer itself.
Comment 3 Kamil Páral 2016-04-22 13:31:28 UTC 
This might be caused by bug 1314092 (the device has 1 GB RAM). Lukas tried booting into text mode and that worked.
Comment 4 Paul Whalen 2016-04-22 19:01:02 UTC 
I think this can be closed, we were both able to pxe boot with vnc and text options. Graphical is also working here, but for some reason not for Lukas.