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Bug 2109650 - Cobbler PXE Kickstart Errors RedHat 9
Summary: Cobbler PXE Kickstart Errors RedHat 9
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pykickstart
Version: 9.0
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: rc
: ---
Assignee: Brian Lane
QA Contact: Release Test Team
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-07-21 17:54 UTC by Manoj
Modified: 2022-07-21 23:15 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2022-07-21 23:15:41 UTC
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Cobbler PXE Kickstart Errors RedHat 9 (342.66 KB, image/png)
2022-07-21 17:54 UTC, Manoj 		no flags Details
Cobbler PXE Error (77.49 KB, image/png)
2022-07-21 18:27 UTC, Manoj 		no flags Details
Cobbler PXE Error 1 (284.40 KB, image/png)
2022-07-21 18:51 UTC, Manoj 		no flags Details
Errors (362.43 KB, image/png)
2022-07-21 18:52 UTC, Manoj 		no flags Details
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Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-128664 0 None None None 2022-07-21 17:56:11 UTC

Description Manoj 2022-07-21 17:54:34 UTC 
Created attachment 1898542 [details]
Cobbler PXE Kickstart Errors RedHat 9

Description of problem:

Cobbler PXE does not work with RedHat 9. Stuck after dracut initqueue hook..

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

RedHat 9.0-x86_64

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1.PXE Kickstart
2.
3.

Actual results:

dracut initqueue hook...
dracut-initqueue: timeout, still waiting for following initqueue hooks:

I have attached screenshot for an actual error. 

Expected results:
Cobbler PXE Successful installation. 

Additional info:

I did not had these problems with RedHat 8 kickstart when using same set up.
Comment 1 Jan Stodola 2022-07-21 18:02:16 UTC 
What are the kernel boot parameters used for the installation?
Comment 2 Manoj 2022-07-21 18:24:06 UTC 
This is my initial kickstart config i have been using . I Have used same on RedHat 7 as well as RedHat 8 and it has always worked until i tested with 9 today. 


text
network --bootproto dhcp
url --url=http://10.11.12.13/cblr/links/RedHatLinux9-x86_64/
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard --vckeymap=us --xlayouts=''
zerombr
clearpart --all
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda --append=" crashkernel=auto"
timezone America/New_York
auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha256
rootpw --iscrypted xxxxxxxxx
selinux --enforcing
reboot
firewall --service=ssh
skipx
firstboot

%pre --log=/root/pre_log

/usr/bin/dd bs=512 count=10 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
/usr/sbin/parted --script /dev/sda mklabel gpt
/usr/sbin/parted --script /dev/sda print
/usr/bin/sleep  30

%end

# Disk partitioning information
part pv.01 --onpart sdb --grow
part pv.02 --onpart sdc --grow
part pv.03 --onpart sdd --grow
volgroup VolGroupSystem pv.01
volgroup VolGroupServices pv.02
volgroup VolGrouplog pv.03
part /boot --fstype=xfs --asprimary --size=512 --grow --ondisk=sda
logvol / --vgname=VolGroupSystem --fstype=xfs --size=10240 --name=lvroot
logvol swap --vgname=VolGroupSystem --fstype=swap --size=2048 --name=lvswap
logvol /services --vgname=VolGroupServices --fstype=xfs --size=10000 --name=lvservices
logvol /var/log --vgname=VolGrouplog --fstype=xfs --size=10000 --name=lvlog


%packages
@^minimal-environment
%end
Comment 3 Manoj 2022-07-21 18:27:56 UTC 
Created attachment 1898551 [details]
Cobbler PXE Error
Comment 4 Manoj 2022-07-21 18:51:30 UTC 
Created attachment 1898567 [details]
Cobbler PXE Error 1

It get stuck here for a couple of minutes before start throwing errors after.
Comment 5 Manoj 2022-07-21 18:52:18 UTC 
Created attachment 1898568 [details]
Errors
Comment 6 Jan Stodola 2022-07-21 18:55:42 UTC 
Actually, the problem is written in the screenshot - you have to use "inst.ks=..." instead of "ks=..." and the same with "lang" and "kssendmac".
This should fix your problem.
Comment 7 Manoj 2022-07-21 19:15:53 UTC 
This is default created by cobbler when running "cobbler import" command. The version cobbler i am using is Cobbler 2.8.5

LABEL RHEL9-x86_64
        kernel /images/RHEL9-x86_64/vmlinuz
        MENU LABEL RHEL9-x86_64
        append initrd=/images/RHEL9-x86_64/initrd.img ksdevice=bootif lang=  kssendmac text  ks=http://10.11.12.2/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/RHEL9-x86_64
        ipappend 2
Comment 8 Manoj 2022-07-21 20:15:43 UTC 
Ok i updated below and it fixed my problem. Howerver, i had to update /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default manually to make changes. If i run "cobbler sync" it is going to revert back to default without inst.I am thinking if this is fixed in newer version of cobbler ? 

LABEL RHEL9-x86_64
        kernel /images/RHEL9-x86_64/vmlinuz
        MENU LABEL RHEL9-x86_64
        append initrd=/images/RHEL9-x86_64/initrd.img ksdevice=bootif inst.lang=  inst.kssendmac inst.text inst.ks=http://10.11.12.2/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/RHEL9-x86_64
ipappend 2
Comment 9 Manoj 2022-07-21 20:17:39 UTC 
Thank you for your help Jan Stodola. I assume this is more of Cobbler bug.
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