I am trying to boot a bunch of nodes in a special microserver blade chassis where the nodes do not have a traditional vga or graphics console. The only console they have were I can see the progress or lack there-of is a serial console. Also the only installation method is via pxe boot. I have passed the "console=ttyS0,9600n8" to the kernel in the pxelinux.cfg boot config file and as a result I see the kernel boot messages on the serial console. Once the kernel is done booting however I do not see any further messages except for any rsync bits which are normally quiet other than three or four small rsync status messages at the end. If I use the "--listing" option when I pull the image from the golden client that is running RHEL6.1 I do indeed see the whole list of files being rsync'ed fly by but this really slows the install down to a crawl. I do not see ANY of the customary boel progress messages at all. I see where initramfs is detected and init called. Then it talks about how init is started with BusyBox v1.9.1 (2011-04-21 16:31:21 PDT), then the disk controller modules are loaded.
The last messages I see are: NET: Registered protocal family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions and then just before the node reboots after rsyncing over all the files are three or four rsnc connect messages and then the node reboots. My basic problem is after the node reboots from the install, it does not boot up to the OS. It just sits there after accessing the default file that tells it to boot from the local disk and goes no further. My suspicion is that some part of the grub execution or something else at the end of the install is not proceeding correctly. But since I cannot see any of the boel or other progress log messages I am not sure what is failing. BTW, I also have a basic RHEL6.1 kickstart environment setup and the same nodes will pxe boot and install just fine from the redhat kickstart environment that also uses the "console=ttyS0,9600n8" in the kernel append line. Any thoughts? BTW, I am booting with a RHEL6.1 UYOK kernel and initrd that are generated on the client during the perpareclient step. -- Steven DuChene ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on "Lean Startup Secrets Revealed." This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
