Re: Problem booting from PXE/kickstart on FC7

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Gary Schlachter wrote:


Mike Wright wrote:

Gary Schlachter wrote:



Mike Wright wrote:

Gary Schlachter wrote:


Mike Wright wrote:

Gary Schlachter wrote:

I am trying to use PXE/kickstart to load FC7 on an appliance. My initrd.img and vmlinuz are from FC7 and are loading but my console output looks like the following:




<big snip />

Switching to new root and running init.
umounting old /dev
umounting old /proc
umounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Booting has failed.
Kernel panic - not syncing:  Attempted to kill init!

Any and all thoughts would be greatly appreciated!




Hi Gary,

I'll take a stab at it.

I nfs install f7 using pxeboot and kickstart. I seem to remember struggling with something similar. It turned out that in the pxeboot stanza I had broken the APPEND line using "\". Big no-no. The "\" is for readability. The APPEND line and all its options must be on a single line. Once I'd done that it worked correctly.

If that doesn't solve the problem would you post your pxeboot stanza? Might be a clue there.

hth,
Mike Wright :m)

I finally got my initrd.img to load. I found a post about changing the init script in the initrd.img from

   mount /sysroot

      to

   mount -o defaults --ro -t ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /sysroot

and that did the trick. However now my kickstart file is not being used. My pxelinux.xfg/default looks like

      label linux
      kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.fc7.img ks=nfs:10.254.13.1:/home/tftpboot/kickstart/10.254.13.112-kickstart ramdisk_size=9216

I have tried with and without the ksdevice=eth0 on the "append" line as well. It is like the "ks=" is being ignored by the kernel alotugh I can see it as a kernel option on the console.



Hmmm, couple possibilities:

Is the nfs server running and has the kickstart file been exported? Is that machine running iptables and are the required nfs ports open?

When I was trying to debug my setup tcpdump was definitely my best friend.


Yes to all since I am able to boot other systems with FC1 from the same setup. My PXE prompt has multiple options one of which is Fedora Core 1 and another is Fedora Core 7.


Our APPEND lines are very different.  Here's mine:

APPEND ksdevice=eth0 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=images/fc7-install.img network ks=nfs:lan51:/opt/fc7/ks.cfg

My default file looks like below with no line breaks:

prompt 1
default linux
timeout 100

label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append ksdevice=eth0 load_ramdisk=1 initrd=initrd.fc7.img network ks=nfs:10.254.13.1:/home/tftpboot/kickstart/10.254.13.112-kickstart ramdisk_size=9216

When I get to the boot line, I type "linux". The vmlinuz and initrd.fc7.img are loaded. Then a "Ready" message appears. Then the system boots with Fedora Core 7. Is there any way I could try your fc7-install.img? I still wonder if that is where my problem lies.

I took vmlinuz and initrd.img from F-7-i386-DVD.iso/images/pxeboot. Files sizes are vmlinuz: 1856340 and initrd.img: 5674432.

I just reread the thread and think your custom initrd.img is a problem. There shouldn't be any need to use lvm to read a cd/dvd. I always just use the kernel and ramdisk image from the iso.


Thanks,
Gary



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