-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Yes, I completely removed the rootimg directory and it created a new one from scratch. I just did it again and looked at the dependency processing it looks like the kernel package pulls in dracut-kernel, which in turn pulls in dracut.
Mike On 1/9/13 3:17 PM, Ling Gao wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > 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 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ7fbSAAoJEFmgPOBxQDtBVH4H/1dCitAlq+yLIEBOzdAfsJkC 1ouZmWJnGF+sUeAFu5y67GEIHpIamHjpJp6/reTUjfn48oP0DNDtOhuW9MzutR0H qg9nq5f1OGaJ0wrPRMhdW3jvjLRDd9O8jCUcRrl+nykN611G0/Mi6zwuFQT/MMjB aaFl/tmB0YAqFrAkIuYXjUV1+cH5KKUY/s7JtgqMqxynj/kk7ztHNkkthzGH9CHE CZB4htMETFB7BhC5wYBpeXThIjiMyVvSUwAZbuJ9VjLfxrPUuqnMA4CbsNoBdEV4 tsiJAUFC3DR7B8BiaA0k1Jb7/yIPVHiaTNV9eGAJzi65zIMKebnfqFh0fQPIfO4= =EIBF -----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
