Thanks for catching that! We had used the compute.pkglist which did not include dracut. We switched over to using the compute.rhels6.x86_64.pkglist that includes the dracut packages, but we still got the same error. I tried a second time with rdshell added to the kernel line in the node's elilo file, and saw this:
ata2.00: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)\ ata1.00: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata1.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata2.01: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] 64453103616 512-byte logical blocks: (32.9 TB/30.0 TiB) sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] 4096-byte physical blocks sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: unknown partition table sd 0:2:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk dracut Warning: No root device "1" found Dropping to debug shell. sh: cannot set terminal process group (-1): Inappropriate ioctl for device sh: no job control in this shell dracut:/# Regards, Christian Caruthers Senior Consultant - System x Linux HPC Mobile: 757-289-9872 Find me on LinkedIn From: Jonathan Mills <jonmi...@renci.org> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>, Date: 03/20/2014 09:12 AM Subject: Re: [xcat-user] Strange xCAT stateless image behavior Make sure you have the following RPMs installed inside the stateless image before running packimage: dracut-kernel-004-303.el6.noarch dracut-network-004-303.el6.noarch dracut-004-303.el6.noarch Your version numbers may differ. These are from CentOS 6.4. On 3/20/14, 8:51 AM, Christian Caruthers wrote: > Trying to set up the default compute stateless template in v2.8.3 on > rhel 6.4. This system was first upgraded from xCAT 2.7.3 to 2.8.3 w/ > latest deps. We took the default compute.pkglist and compute.exlist from > $XCATROOT/share/xcat/netboot/rh. When genimage is building the initrd, I > see the following: > > Try to load drivers: pps_core mlx4_core mdio libcrc32c ptp dca > virtio_ring virtio mlx4_en tg3 bnx2 bnx2x e1000 e1000e igb mlx_en > virtio_net be2net ext3 ext4 to initrd. > W: Cannot load dracut module "xcat", dependencies failed. > W: Dracut module "xcat" cannot be found. > W: Dracut module "nfs" cannot be found. > W: Dracut module "network" cannot be found. > the initial ramdisk for statelite is generated successfully. > Try to load drivers: pps_core mlx4_core mdio libcrc32c ptp dca > virtio_ring virtio mlx4_en tg3 bnx2 bnx2x e1000 e1000e igb mlx_en > virtio_net be2net ext3 ext4 to initrd. > W: Cannot load dracut module "xcat", dependencies failed. > W: Dracut module "xcat" cannot be found. > W: Dracut module "nfs" cannot be found. > W: Dracut module "network" cannot be found. > the initial ramdisk for stateless is generated successfully. > > After running packimage, we boot the system and see the following in the > console: > > Initalizing network drop monitor service > Freeing unused kernel memory: 1264k freed > Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k > Freeing unused kernel memory: 904k freed > Freeing unused kernel memory: 1676k freed > dracut: FATAL: No or empty root= argument > dracut: Refusing to continue > dracut Warning: Signal caught! > /lib/dracut-lib.sh: line 83: /emergency/01-die.sh: No such file or directory > > Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init! > Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64 #1 > Call Trace: > ? panic+0xa7/0x16f > ? do_exit+0x862/0x870 > ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0 > ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20 > ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b > > > The management node has a patched kernel, and it appears the stateless > image is running the stock rhel 6.4 kernel. Could this be the problem, > or am I missing something: > > [root@mgt01 modules]# ls > /install/netboot/rhels6.4/x86_64/compute/rootimg/lib/modules > *2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64* > [root@mgt01 modules]# uname -a > Linux mgt01.cluster.net *2.6.32-358.18.1.el6.x86_64* #1 SMP Fri Aug 2 > 17:04:38 EDT 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > [root@mgt01 modules]# > > Regards,* > Christian Caruthers* > Senior Consultant - System x Linux HPC > Mobile: 757-289-9872 > _Find me on LinkedIn_ > <http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=14378571&trk=tab_pro> > -- Jonathan Mills Systems Administrator Renaissance Computing Institute UNC-Chapel Hill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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