Bug 827770
| Summary: | dracut fails when attempting Fedora 17 install via PXE | ||||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta> | ||||||||||
| Component: | dracut | Assignee: | dracut-maint | ||||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||||||
| Version: | 17 | CC: | dracut-maint, jonathan | ||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2012-06-03 10:52:06 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||||
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Created attachment 588733 [details]
Kernel boot - part 1
Created attachment 588734 [details]
Kernel boot - part 2
Created attachment 588735 [details]
Kernel boot - part 3
My /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default is:
LABEL Fedora17-x86_64
kernel /images/Fedora17-x86_64/vmlinuz
MENU LABEL Fedora17-x86_64
append initrd=/images/Fedora17-x86_64/initrd.img ksdevice=bootif lang= kssendmac text ks=http://10.0.0.1/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/Fedora17-x86_64
ipappend 2
As per the http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/doc/boot-options.html documentation, indeed the option inst.repo for anaconda/dracut wasn't set, which lead to that failure. I've got it installed now on my system. As per the http://wwoods.fedorapeople.org/doc/boot-options.html documentation, indeed the option inst.repo for anaconda/dracut wasn't set, which lead to that failure. I've got it installed now on my system. |
Created attachment 588732 [details] Cobbler PXE menu, Fedora 17 kernel and kickstart command line Description of problem: Attempting an installation of Fedora 17 via PXE leads to dracut crashing after booting the kernel and loading the kickstart profile from the serving machine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 17 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup httpd, dhcpd, nfs and cobbler on a machine to serve a Fedora 17 distro/profile 2. Boot the client machine in PXE mode 3. Look out the kernel boot sequence, dracut and anaconda Actual results: Failure at anaconda initialization. Expected results: anaconda starting the installation process properly. Additional info: