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Created attachment 594739[details]
rhel7-pxe-pacage-missing.png
Description of problem:
Several packages randomly missing when PXE installing the RHEL7 Xen guest. It starts happen during the Starting installation process, till the end of packages installing.
Please see attached picture for detail. The process can continue when click Retry.
The repo is OK as no this problem found when PXE installing a physical machine.
No this problem when installing the guest with the full iso (RHEL-7.0-20120620.n.0-Server-x86_64-dvd1.iso)
No this problem when HTTP installing the guest with boot.iso.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Host:
2.6.18-321.el5xen
xen-3.0.3-139.el5
Guest(RHEL-7.0-20120620.n.0):
anaconda-17.28.8-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
kernel-3.3.0-0.15.el7.x86_64.rpm
How reproducible:
100%
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a RHEL7 Xen guest (config file attached)
2. PXE installing the RHEL7 guest:
[anaconda root@localhost]#cat /proc/cmdline
initrd=/images/RHEL7-Server-x64/initrd.img ksdevice=bootif lang= repo=http://url/to/RHEL7-Server-x64/repo/ biosdevname=0 root=live:http://url/to/RHEL7-Server-x64/repo/LiveOS/squashfs.img BOOTIF=01-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx BOOT_IMAGE=/images/RHEL7-Server-x64/vmlinuz
3. follow the wizard to the package installing process
Actual results:
Several packages keep missing during installation process
Expected results:
No packages missing during installation process
Additional info: