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Bug 1046582

Summary: PXE installation fail on Dell server
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: vincent_chen <vincent.y.chen>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 7.0CC: mkent
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Last Closed: 2014-01-02 19:25:24 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Flags
PXE_rhel7_fail
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Capture from failed kickstart via pxeboot
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Description vincent_chen 2013-12-26 08:07:26 UTC
Created attachment 841785 [details]
PXE_rhel7_fail

Description of problem:
PXE installation fail on Dell server R520 and PE6850

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ISO:rhel-7-public-beta-x86_64-dvd.iso

How reproducible:
install OS from PXE server


Steps to Reproduce:
1. press F12 to boot host from nic
2. after the vmlinuz and initrid dowload to RAM, it check hardware and then enter into emergency mode. installation break



Actual results:
install process break

Expected results:
OS install success

Additional info:

PXE default file
*****************
LABEL RHEL 7.0 beta  x86_64 No kickstart
        MENU LABEL RHEL 7.0 beta x86_64  No kickstart
        KERNEL images/rhel/x86_64/7.0/vmlinuz
        APPEND ks initrd=images/rhel/x86_64/7.0/initrd.img ramdisk_size=100000
***************

Attach some capture log from journalctl tool

Comment 2 Matthew Kent 2014-01-01 17:44:12 UTC
Seeing this here as well on some Dell c5220 sleds

pxeboot via

label Install RHEL 7-public-beta
  kernel rhel-installer/7-public-beta/vmlinuz
  append ks initrd=rhel-installer/7-public-beta/initrd.img console=ttyS1,115200n8 console=tty0
  ipappend 2

fails and drops me into pxeboot.

attaching rdsosreport.txt

Comment 3 Matthew Kent 2014-01-01 17:44:56 UTC
Created attachment 844168 [details]
Capture from failed kickstart via pxeboot

Comment 4 Matthew Kent 2014-01-01 17:49:41 UTC
(In reply to Matthew Kent from comment #2)
> Seeing this here as well on some Dell c5220 sleds
> 
> pxeboot via
> 
> label Install RHEL 7-public-beta
>   kernel rhel-installer/7-public-beta/vmlinuz
>   append ks initrd=rhel-installer/7-public-beta/initrd.img
> console=ttyS1,115200n8 console=tty0
>   ipappend 2
> 
> fails and drops me into pxeboot.

Oops, drops me into the emergency shell :)

Comment 5 Dave Cantrell 2014-01-02 19:22:09 UTC
Created attachment 844681 [details]
fail_install_rhel7_1.PNG

Comment 6 Dave Cantrell 2014-01-02 19:22:34 UTC
Created attachment 844682 [details]
fail_install_rhel7_2.PNG

Comment 7 Dave Cantrell 2014-01-02 19:23:00 UTC
Created attachment 844683 [details]
fail_install_rhel7_3.PNG

Comment 8 Dave Cantrell 2014-01-02 19:23:25 UTC
Created attachment 844684 [details]
fail_install_rhel7_4.PNG

Comment 9 Dave Cantrell 2014-01-02 19:25:24 UTC
Do not attach tar or zip files of other files to bug reports.  Just attach the files directly to the bug report.  If it's a plain text file, make sure the file type is set to text/plain.  We rely on Bugzilla's ability to search file attachment when looking for duplicate bugs or bugs we have already solves.  Attaching a tar or zip file containing files prevents us from doing that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1038015 ***