Re: [CentOS] How to PXE kickstart hosts with little memory (Error: "Warning: /dev/root does not exist")?

2017-04-24 Thread Frank Thommen
On 04/21/2017 10:25 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 04/21/2017 12:49 PM, Frank Thommen wrote: It seems, that this is not related to local disk space - as I initally thought - but to too small memory. It only happens with VMs with little RAM (1024 MB). As soon as we raise the available memory to

Re: [CentOS] How to PXE kickstart hosts with little memory (Error: "Warning: /dev/root does not exist")?

2017-04-21 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 04/21/2017 12:49 PM, Frank Thommen wrote: It seems, that this is not related to local disk space - as I initally thought - but to too small memory. It only happens with VMs with little RAM (1024 MB). As soon as we raise the available memory to 2048 MB, kickstarting works fine. The RHEL

[CentOS] How to PXE kickstart hosts with little memory (Error: "Warning: /dev/root does not exist")?

2017-04-21 Thread Frank Thommen
Hi, while kickstarting our virtual machines with PXE we often run into kickstart/anaconda failing with [...] [...] dracut-mount[xxx]: Warning: Can't mount root filesystem [...] dracut-mount[xxx]: Warning: /dev/root does not exist [...] dracut-mount[xxx]:/lib/dracut-lib.sh: line 1030: echo