Help with Kickstart on FC7

[Gary Schlachter]

Things have changed but not a great deal of improvement.  It is loading 
the vmlinuz and initrd.img from 2.6.22.9-91 kernel.  It progresses 
further during the initrd but then panics with:

Trying to resume from /dev/Volgroup00/LogVol01
No suspend signature on swap, not resuming

Creating root device.
Mounting root filesystem.
mount: could not find filesystem '/dev/root'
Setting up other filesystems.
Setting up new root fs
setuproot: moving /dev failed: No such file or directory
no fstab.sys, mounting internal defaults
setuproot: error mounting /proc: No such file or directory
setuproot: error mounting /sys: No such file or directory
Switching to new root and running init.
unmounting old /dev
unmounting old /proc
unmounting old /sys
switchroot: mount failed: No such file or directory
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

This this has two SATA drives using hardware RAID1.



Phil Meyer wrote:
> Gary Schlachter wrote:
>> I am having great difficulty trying to load FC7 via kickstart on a 
>> new server.    Here is the process I have followed:
>>
>>  1) Loaded FC7 on the server via Live-CD with no issues.
>>  2) Copied initrd.img from server to my DHCP/tftp kickstart server 
>> along with vmlinuz
>>  3) Created new ks.cfg for this server based on anaconda.cfg from 
>> /root on server
>>  4) Booted the server.
>>
>>  The results:
>>
>>  1) I can see my kernel and init.img files downloaded to the new server.
>>  2) Vast amounts of information displayed on console ending with the 
>> following:
>>
>>      RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>>      grow_buffers: requested out-of-ranger block BIGNUMBERHERE for 
>> device ram0
>>      isofs_fill_super:  bread failed, dev=ram0, iso_blknum=17 block=...
>>      No filesystem could mount root, tried: iso9660
>>      kernel panic ...
>>
>>     I have tried loading additional modules into initrd.img but no 
>> joy.  Any and all thoughts are greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Gary
>>    
>
> For PXE loads you need to use the images from images/pxeboot on the 
> CD/DVD image.
>
> You also need to specify some kernel parameters:
>
> From: http://www.linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/pxeboot.html
>
> 8) Now create the default pxelinux configuration inside the new file
> /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
> prompt 1
> default linux
> timeout 100
>
> label linux
> kernel vmlinuz
> append initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=9216
>
> Good Luck!
>
>