Did you totally remove the image from the rootimg directory before running genimage? The dracut mode is set when $rootimg/usr/share/dracut/ directory exists.
Ling Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: [email protected], 845-433-5692 "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert Einstein From: Michael Robbert <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Date: 01/09/2013 04:59 PM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] NFSROOT problem -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Does it need to be added the exclude list? It is getting pulled in without any dracut packages listed and dracut is getting run by genimage, but with errors if I don't include dracut-network. If RHEL 6.x is supported, why isn't CentOS 6.x? Mike On 1/9/13 2:44 PM, Ling Gao wrote: > From the code (anaconda.pm), it looks like dracut is not support > for Centos. Please remove the dracut rpms from the pkglist and > regenerate the image. > > Ling > > Ling Gao Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab IBM Systems and > Technology Group Internal: T/L 293-5692 External: > [email protected], 845-433-5692 > > "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert > Einstein > > > > From: Michael Robbert <[email protected]> To: > <[email protected]> Date: 01/09/2013 02:05 PM > Subject: [xcat-user] NFSROOT problem > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > I just switched from stateless using RAMdisk based boot to > statelite using NFS root and ran into another problem. After > following all the documentation to change our setup I finally run > nodeset to create the new pxelinux.cfg file and it generates this: > > #statelite centos6.3-x86_64-compute DEFAULT xCAT LABEL xCAT KERNEL > xcat/netboot/centos6.3/x86_64/compute/kernel APPEND > initrd=xcat/netboot/centos6.3/x86_64/compute/initrd-statelite.gz > NFSROOT=172.17.0.1:/install/netboot/centos6.3/x86_64/compute > STATEMNT= XCAT=172.17.0.1:3001 ifname=eth0:00:30:48:f2:87:78 > netdev=eth0 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200n8r MNTOPTS= IPAPPEND > 2 > > When I boot that node it kernel panics after an error: > > dracut: FATAL: No or empty root= argument > > I see that nodeset did not generate a root= argument and after > looking at the dracut documentation it looks like it is required. > If I manually add the proper root= argument, pointing to the > rootimg directory, the node boots perfectly. So, my question is > should nodeset be generating the root= argument or should it be > booting somehow without it? > > Thanks, Mike Robbert Colorado School of Mines > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery > and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - > 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE > $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 > _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing > list [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery > and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - > 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE > $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 > > > > _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing > list [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.19 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ7efHAAoJEFmgPOBxQDtBoh4H/Rjygdc4s0egv/zd+4kB8HPK 2DKbEbjR2camhplOyXLhfAqCxjIpgO3OjsG3sZIYloV7rHPRHt7JHaYNJDErz2So 2TMW8j9VdflqHUS/+/NztJiNv/Y7+b1qb2KtzVWUkxB8WrLNFP+Ct6oRBmaAYTkS vrU3wtxbYp8AAhjLENrVke3TyKbHROLHi7TStMaRYcph7AsBsHq55bXbNGtXOsDH DGgrg/xlt97+vtNUMOXvxOECe4RraASSAXleN7XMfEFlyb0dSz3GlIE2ShyXOVYX RLFB3RW0C3hi8lnwEHvWLNU3CNuPB6gG+tg4/3vRRMfhKLl/3ytjFxHI0YdcTo4= =Y5Sb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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