See below - good progress, but no cigar yet.
On 08/21/2018 10:49 AM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On 08/20/2018 07:48 PM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
See my reply interspersed.
On 08/20/2018 10:26 AM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On 08/19/2018 10:50 AM, Bob Gustafson wrote:
My particular piece of bare metal seems to have enough memory, disk
space, Intel x86_64 architecture w/4 cores, ethernet nics, but it does
not have any video support.
I can move data using ethernet, but user interaction during install must
go through a 115200n8 serial port.
Do you see the isolinux boot menu on the serial console? If so you just need
to edit the first entry and add console=ttyS0 to the kernel command line.
Thanks very much for your reply.
I don't get that far on the serial console. I think that dialog is being
painted to a video frame buffer..
This is what I see on an attempt using a USB stick:
could you try to add a "SERIAL" line to the isolinux/isolinux.cfg on your USB
stick?
and see if that helps? I can try to do this at some point but I'm not at home
right now.
Dusty
Clicking around to find out how to modify the isolinux/isolinux.cfg
(which is pxelinux/pxelinux.cfg on my USB stick), it seemed too
difficult with the RO nature of the iso disk.
So, I continued on my pxelinux->tftpboot path
I added the serial and console phrases to the vmlinuz and initrd.img
lines - and I am seeing:
PXELINUX 6.04 PXE Copyright (C) 1994-2015 H. Peter Anvin et al
Hello RDG Boot.msg
Loading vmlinuz... ok
Loading initrd.img...ok
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.16.3-301.fc28.x86_64
(mockbuild@bkernel02.phx2.f8
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=vmlinuz vga=off
console=ttyS0,115200n8 8
...
...
[ OK ] Reached target System Initialization.
[ OK ] Reached target Basic System.
[ 337.055250] random: crng init done
[ 367.193105] dracut-initqueue[821]: Warning: dracut-initqueue
timeout - starts
...
...
Starting Setup Virtual Console...
[ OK 528.950722] audit: type=1130 audit(1520288699.910:16):
pid=1 uid=0 aui'
0m] Started Setu[ 528.972876] audit: type=1131
audit(1520288699.910:17): pid=1'
p Virtual Console.
Starting Dracut Emergency Shell...
[ 529.069816] audit: type=1130 audit(1520288700.029:18): pid=1
uid=0 auid=4294'
[ 529.090595] audit: type=1131 audit(1520288700.029:19): pid=1
uid=0 auid=4294'
Warning: /dev/root does not exist
Generating "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt"
Entering emergency mode. Exit the shell to continue.
Type "journalctl" to view system logs.
You might want to save "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" to a USB
stick or /boot
after mounting them and attach it to a bug report.
dracut:/#
The console is live (I can type characters and they are echoed..).
11 lines up says Warning: /dev/root does not exist.
Is this a problem I can fix at this stage?
