It would appear I was wrong - I think just creating a new disk file
got rid of some kind of corruption - I'm getting a good result from a
virtio disk right now.
On 10/20/2010 02:42 PM, John Holland wrote:
I just discovered something - maybe everyone on the list already
knows - it appears that CentosOS and Fedora guests in KVM booting off
of PXE from Spacewalk work a lot better with "IDE" virtual disks than
with "Virtio". I'm used to Satellite and RedHat where VirtIO is
preferred. Have I reached a correct conclusion, that IDE is better for
Spacewalk?
On 10/20/2010 02:17 PM, John Holland wrote:
Thanks,
This gets it further along to where it hangs on running pre-install
scripts. (There are no preinstall scripts). Where should I look to
debug this?
On 10/20/2010 02:55 AM, Walther, Johannes wrote:
Hi John again,
I find a solution for me, I meen it is
possible that you do, as test, the same!
CentOS installtion works fine now!
in other mailings i found:
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Hi all,
After spending another day of debugging I think I found the
problem.
There seems to be a bug in the kernel (2.6.18-194.el5)
which was provided for pxe install on the CentOS 5.5 iso images. I
could trigger it rproducilble via the following steps:
* boot it via pxe in rescue mode
* ensure you have a swap and a date (probably ext3)
partition
* try to mount the swap partition -> this fails
* try to mount the normal partition -> system hangs
-> kernel panic
Can anybody confirm/disprove this?
@developers: Is there a way to change the kickstart pre
script which tries to not mount a swap partition?
Regards,
Sascha Bendix
Sascha,
Can you try a solution real quick for me?
edit /var/lib/rhn/kickstart/snippets/keep_system_id
and change:
DISKS="$DISKS $(fdisk -l /dev/$disk | awk '/^\/dev/{print $1}')"
to
DISKS="$DISKS $(fdisk -l /dev/$disk | grep -v "swap\|LVM\|Extended" |
awk '/^\/dev/{print $1}')"
that should ensure that it doesn't try to mount any of those types of
partitions (it seemed that even if it excluded swap but tried to mount
LVM, it would fail).
The above change seemed to work really well for me.
-Justin Sherrill
============================================================
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Johannes Walther [mailto:[email protected]]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Oktober 2010 03:57
An: John Holland
Cc: Walther, Johannes
Betreff: Spacewalk Issue - CentOS kickstarting
Hi John,
Sory, for write you directly, but I cant send messages to the list....
I dont know why.
I have had the same Problem like you wrote in your Mail to the List.
--> [Spacewalk-list] trying to get CentOS 5.5 to kickstart
In Spacewalk I have the channels: CentOS-5.5; Fedora-12;
Fedora-13; i386
+ x86_64. All with child-channels update; epel; rhn-tools, different
names.
All fedora works fine, but boot CentOS, i386 + x86_64, stop
on the same
screen like yours. What can i do vor debug this. On the blue-screen
point the bash (F2) doesn't work.
Cheers and thanks
Johannes
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