I have a RHEL 5.6 KVM host on which koan and Cobbler have successfully
provisioned RHEL guests. Now I'm trying to kick Fedora14 guests and
it halts during PXE boot. Unfortunately, I can't vnc or console in
fast enough to catch all the console messages. Here are the last few
lines before it pauses:
[ 2.028840] Initializing network drop monitor service
[ 2.033362] Freeing unused kernel memory: 944k freed
[ 2.038365] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
[ 2.043519] Freeing unused kernel memory 1576k freed
[ 2.049756] Freeing unused kernel memory: 1836 freed
[ 2.099890] virtio-pci 0000:00:04.0 PCI INT A -> Link[LNKD] ->
GSI 11 (level, high) -> IRQ 11
It stops there and refuses to budge. I've never seen a failure this
early on, after it gets its DCHP information but before it completes
initializing the kernel. This is the first time I've tried to kick
any server, virtual or physical, for Fedora. I'm assuming that the
kickstart file is irrelevant since it never gets to Anaconda.
It feels like there's something wrong with the PXE environment, but
I've run out of things to check. /tftpboot files look good, distro
tree looks good, bootloaders are where they should be. Any ideas?
Here's my distro, profile, and system:
# cobbler distro report --name=f14-x86_64
Name : f14-x86_64
Architecture : x86_64
Breed : redhat
Comment : fedora14.1
Initrd :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/f14-x86_64/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
Kernel :
/var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/f14-x86_64/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
Kernel Options : {}
Kernel Options (Post Install) : {}
Kickstart Metadata : {'tree':
'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/f14-x86_64'}
Management Classes : []
OS Version : fedora14
Owners : ['cobbler']
Red Hat Management Key : <<inherit>>
Red Hat Management Server : <<inherit>>
Template Files : {}
# cobbler profile report --name=f14-x86_64
Name : f14-x86_64
Comment :
DHCP Tag : default
Distribution : f14-x86_64
Enable PXE Menu? : True
Kernel Options : {}
Kernel Options (Post Install) : {}
Kickstart : /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/sample_end.ks
Kickstart Metadata : {}
Management Classes : []
Name Servers : ['10.1.1.19', '10.1.2.79']
Name Servers Search Path : []
Owners : ['cobbler']
Parent Profile :
Red Hat Management Key : <<inherit>>
Red Hat Management Server : <<inherit>>
Repos : []
Server Override : <<inherit>>
Template Files : {}
Virt Auto Boot : 1
Virt Bridge : br0
Virt CPUs : 1
Virt File Size(GB) : 20
Virt Path : /kvm
Virt RAM (MB) : 8192
Virt Type : qemu
# cobbler system report --name=kvm-gchavez
Name : kvm-gchavez
Comment :
Gateway : 10.1.1.1
Hostname : kvm-gchavez.local
Image :
Kernel Options : {'console': ['tty0', 'ttyS0,115200']}
Kernel Options (Post Install) : {'console': ['tty0', 'ttyS0,115200']}
Kickstart : /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/fedora-kvm-guest.ks
Kickstart Metadata : {}
Management Classes : []
Name Servers : []
Name Servers Search Path : []
Netboot Enabled : True
Owners : ['cobbler']
Power Management Address :
Power ID :
Power Password :
Power Management Type : ipmitool
Power Username :
Profile : f14-x86_64
Red Hat Management Key : <<inherit>>
Red Hat Management Server : <<inherit>>
Server Override : <<inherit>>
Template Files : {}
Virt Auto Boot : 1
Virt CPUs : <<inherit>>
Virt File Size(GB) : 100
Virt Path : <<inherit>>
Virt RAM (MB) : <<inherit>>
Virt Type : qemu
Interface ===== : eth0
Bonding Mode :
Bonding Master :
Bonding Opts :
DHCP Tag : CS
DNS Name : kvm-gchavez.local.
IP Address : 10.1.1.13
MAC Address : 00:16:3e:38:42:ae
Static : True
Static Routes : []
Subnet : 255.255.252.0
Virt Bridge : br0
Finally, here's the kvm process after it hangs:
root 13443 59.7 0.2 8625056 787448 ? Sl 17:45 0:15
/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -S -M rhel5.4.0 -m 8192 -smp 1 -name kvm-gchavez
-uuid 2e7b3ca8-2a35-4645-a00b-0264fa1185d2 -no-kvm-pit-reinjection
-monitor pty -pidfile /var/run/libvirt/qemu//kvm-gchavez.pid
-no-reboot -boot c -kernel
/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-vmlinuz.dGxO6X -initrd
/var/lib/libvirt/boot/virtinst-initrd.img.0WMu0T -append
method=http://10.1.1.97/cblr/links/f14-x86_64/ ksdevice=link lang=
console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 text
ks=http://10.1.1.97/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/kvm-gchavez kssendmac
-drive file=/kvm/kvm-gchavez-disk0,if=ide,index=0,boot=on,cache=none
-net nic,macaddr=00:16:3e:38:42:ae,vlan=0 -net
tap,fd=21,script=,vlan=0,ifname=vnet2 -serial pty -parallel none -usb
-vnc 127.0.0.1:2 -k en-u
Thanks.
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--Greg Chavez
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