Bug 1942134

I'm not sure that is the same problem. Please attach the logs from the installation attempt as individual text/plain attachments. They can be found in /tmp/*log

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anaconda.log

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anaconda error

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program log

Logs added.  Please let me know if you need anything else.

You appear to be missing systemd, which provides systemd-machine-id-setup.

According to the final-kickstart file created by composer, both systemd-219-78.el7_9.3.x86_64 and systemd-libs-219-78.el7_9.3.x86_64 are in the live ISO.  Note that this error is not seen when booting straight from the ISO.  Just when the ISO is used to provision.

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lorax packages

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df output

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no bin found

Hey,

this feature was added into satellite because of oVirt Node (RHV Hypervisor). The documentation does not explicitly say that the image must be squashfs or raw image because we thought this is obvious - why would anyone provide a bootable ISO file to be deployed on a node? If you can name which image formats are supported we can list them, but last time I checked Anaconda tries to mount the file downloaded from the URL and then it performs file copy.

I do not believe this is a bug in Satellite, perhaps our documentation is unclear and we can fix this. But all what Satellite currently does is providing the "liveimg" kickstart statement. Satellite does not even support any kind of image content it must be served manually from a HTTP server.

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error seen in tar file attempt

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/tmp logs tar file

When making a tar payload you need to list the packages that Anaconda needs to finish the installation. Because a tar is meant primarily for use with containers or chroots it adds very little to the blueprint. What you are seeing here is that grub2 is missing from the tar, so Anaconda cannot finish settting up the bootloader.

The blueprint should include the @anaconda-tools group, and grub2 if it is being installed to a BIOS system. If it is also being used on UEFI then it needs:

shim
shim-ia32
grub2-efi
grub2-efi-*-cdboot
grub2-efi-ia32
efibootmgr


It is probably easier to make the live-iso like you did before and extract the squashfs.img from that and use it, since it should have all of the required utilities.

The lorax-composer templates for the various output types can be found here, these are the kickstarts used to make the image and the %packages section lists the packages that are always added to the ones listed in the blueprint.

https://github.com/weldr/lorax/tree/rhel7-extras/share/composer

It appears that packages from anaconda-tools are installed.  grub2-common, device mapper, .... Composer is suppose to add any missing dependencies. So if it isn't, then that is a composer issue as well. 

Keep in mind that the live ISO image booted just fine, it just doesn't work when used for provisioning from satellite.

Per Gary Scarbofourh, on attempting to test this with .tar format images generated by Image Builder rather than .iso. Essentially the same error:

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"The tar image trial ended with the same error, but looking for a different file.

I think the issue is that the installer is not linking the partitions - loop-back images correctly.  For instance, the boot partition is left empty when the bug happens.

This would also explain why it cant find certain executables when it tries to run them, even though they are in the package payload."

I've made some progress testing with RHEL 8 here, but still not yet completely successful.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949456#c11

I have had success with RHEL 8.3 using a few backports from 8.4 as described in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1949456#c17.

For RHEL 7.9, I am testing now.  I've manually added the @core and @anaconda-tools package groups to the lorax-composer kickstart template file /usr/share/lorax/composer/tar.ks and am waiting on the test image build to complete.  After that, I will test as a simple network kickstart install as I did in the other BZ.

Hopefully, the RHEL 7.9 Boot DVD ISO works fine and does not have the same issues 8 had.

Success!  I was able to use the same process as describe in the other bz in comment 31 with the same kickstart file but modified to point to a different liveimg URL.  I was able to use the smaller RHEL 7.9 Boot iso image.

The key to this succeeding is to add a few more package groups to either the blueprint, or lorax-composer's kickstart template that it uses to build the TAR image (note, this is very different from osbuild in RHEL 8).

Add the following package groups and packages to the %packages section of /usr/share/lorax/composer/tar.ks.  Note, that this might get overwritten in future versions.  We need to request a bugfix to add these more permanently.

@core
@anaconda-tools
authconfig


---------
Blueprint
---------
# cat RHEL_Minimal.toml
version = "0.0.10"
description = "A minimal image containing only @core"
groups = []
modules = []
name = "RHEL_Minimal"

[[packages]]
version = "*"
name = "bash-completion"

[[packages]]
version = "*"
name = "cockpit"

[[packages]]
version = "*"
name = "cockpit-packagekit"

[[packages]]
version = "*"
name = "insights-client"

[[packages]]
version = "*"
name = "vim-enhanced"

[customizations]
hostname = "rhel-min-template"

[customizations.firewall]

[customizations.firewall.services]
enabled = ["ssh", "cockpit"]

[customizations.services]
enabled = ["sshd", "cockpit.socket"]

[[customizations.user]]
description = "ansible_admin"
groups = ["wheel"]
name = "admin"
key = "ssh-rsa AAAAB3  ... snip ...  lbrPf demo"
# edge1234
password = "$6$wRWV9JxR2QLaCWJ.$.fdq50gYnHwg7/2gyx.XG/fUgSzs09dseeFDHyR7uFkGx1Wqe5zLeaoh0M.nl63nFpWhnmdRX0EXc4tJLExF9/"


---------
Kickstart
---------
#
# This kickstart template will use the RHEL 8.4+ Boot DVD ISO
# to automation installation of a TAR OS image created by
# RHEL 8 Image Builder.
#

lang en_US
keyboard us
timezone America/New_York --isUtc

install
liveimg --url="http://192.168.1.5/kicks/rhel79-gold.tar.xz"
#liveimg --url="http://192.168.1.5/kicks/rhel83-gold.tar.xz"

zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
#autopart --type=plain --fstype=xfs 
part /boot --fstype=xfs --size=1024 --asprimary
part pv.0 --fstype=lvmpv --ondisk=vda  --size=1 --grow  
volgroup system --pesize=4096 pv.0 
logvol / --vgname=system --name=root --fstype=xfs --percent=80
logvol /var --vgname=system --name=var --fstype=xfs --percent=10 --grow --maxsize=5000
logvol /var/log --vgname=system --name=varlog --fstype=xfs --percent=5 --grow --maxsize=5000
logvol swap  --vgname=system --name=swap --fstype="swap" --recommended

reboot
#text
# firstboot --disable
skipx
network --bootproto=dhcp
auth --passalgo=sha512 --useshadow

# Configured in Blueprint instead
# selinux --enforcing

# Configure firewall & ervices in Blueprint instead
# firewall --enabled --http --ssh

user --name=testuser --groups=wheel --gecos="test user" --iscrypted --password="$6$wx26nHNmRxsZElqd$OSof8TucuRIh.ar6wgLc/CB67KQmrxpuiU6VFuTkxHVHw8ruBn.WsHvgYoOU7Tj5XjKbgoNYj1Fc0j/V21Ayi."

sshkey --username=testuser "ssh-rsa AAAAB3  ... snip ...  lbrPf demo"

# edge1234
#rootpw --iscrypted "$6$wx26nHNmRxsZElqd$OSof8TucuRIh.ar6wgLc/CB67KQmrxpuiU6VFuTkxHVHw8ruBn.WsHvgYoOU7Tj5XjKbgoNYj1Fc0j/V21Ayi."

#sshkey --username=root "ssh-rsa AAAAB3  ... snip ...  lbrPf demo"

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