Re: [Users] ovirt-node install hangs

Am Montag, den 08.10.2012, 09:24 +0100 schrieb Alexandre Santos: > 2012/10/8 Fabian Deutsch <fabiand(a)redhat.com&gt; > Hey, > > Am Sonntag, den 07.10.2012, 15:29 +0100 schrieb Alexandre > Santos: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to install the ovirt-node iso image on a SATA > disk and when > > it gets to the screen where it shows 25% completed the > kernel hangs. I > > can't connect using a serial console to see what has > happened. If I > > reboot using a usb linux disk I see that the SATA disk has > been > > formated and the partitions that existed before disappeared, > being > > there just one partition of type "ee" > > > Is there any error displayed when kernel hangs at 25%? And it > can take > some time to pass the 25% (up to ~2min or so). > > No, I think it's a kernel hang because the lights on the keyboard halt > and I can't change to tty2, etc.. I even changed to tty2 and waited to > see if there were some errors but nothing. I've read that "tty8" was > the logging console but no luck also. > BTW, I tried with an IDE disk and the result was the same. Mh, okay. Could you try booting without the rhgb and quiet kernel arguments. I hope that some errors will be displayed on the screen so we get an idea about the problem. > > > If I use a 8 GB usb pen-drive instead of the SATA disk, the > > installation comes to an end and I reboot but then I get > some error > > about not getting /dev/mapper/by-name/Root and the boot > fails to a > > dracut shell. > > Any ideas? > > > In the dracut shell, could you run blkid and post the results? > > I noticed that the USB Disk was named RootBackup instead of Root... I > then rebooted and chose uninstall and then installed oVirt Node from > scratch and now it worked. > I can't activate Networking because I have that "no hostname" error > mentioned in another post. I think it's related to that... Yes, I've also seen the hostname error. And I've also seen some problems with the rootfs lately. Could you provide a screenshot/dump of the console with that error? - fabian