[Users] Node ISO problem in 2.2.3 stateless boot

[Li, David]

Hi Rami,

Ovirt-node package (iso) has everything you need to pxeboot into a stateless node.
The way to create pxebootable ovirt-node images files is to:

1. first loop mount the ovirt node iso to say /mnt/iso
2. run /mnt/iso/LiveOS/livecd-iso-to-pxeboot  <your-ovirt-node-iso>

This will generate initrd0 and vmlinuz0 under /mnt/iso/tftpboot/. Plus the pxelinux.cfg/default. Copy those to proper directories in your DHCP/TFTP server.
You should be set to pxeboot if you have done that before.

David

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rami Vaknin [mailto:rvaknin at redhat.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 9:34 AM
>To: Li, David
>Cc: users at ovirt.org
>Subject: Re: [Users] Node ISO problem in 2.2.3 stateless boot
>
>On 02/22/2012 07:06 PM, Li, David wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Me too here having problem with 2.2.3. I tried with both sel- built  iso and
>official iso in stateless boot.  This used to work in 2.2.2 with stateless patches.
>>
>> In the official iso the problem is similar to Michel van Horseen has seen:  in
>my case Dracut couldn't find root device: liveiso:/..... but this is strange as I
>have put in kernel option root=live:/.... and it should have taken that instead
>of self invented "liveiso:/". This used to work for me with 2.2.2. something
>broken here.
>I'm not really familiar with what do "liveiso:/" and "live:/" mean or what the
>exact problem is but I've tried to set ovirt-node in pxe, I used a pxeboot script
>(taken from another rpm since I couldn't find one in ovirt-node package), the
>script created for me the needed files (ramdisk, kernel and cfg files), and
>when I've booted from that pxe entry - I found myself in the same problem,
>got into that shell with the same error message - only my "liveiso:/" pointed to
>a different path.
>
>I solved that by changing the "liveiso:/blah/blah/blah/ovirt-node.iso"
>in the kernel path to "live:/ovirt-node.iso", for a backup I copied the ovirt-
>node.iso file to the same directory where the aforementioned 3 files reside, it
>worked!
>>
>> In my own build,  the boot dropped into an emergency shell complaining
>about missing /usr/libexec/ovirt-auto-install file.  I know I chatted with Mike
>Burns for a while yesterday regarding this. This is a new build off tag ovirt-
>node-2.2.3 but the problem seems persisting.
>>
>> - David
>>
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:37:08 -0500
>>> From: Joey Boggs<jboggs at redhat.com>
>>> To: Michel van Horssen<mvanhorssen at vluchtelingenwerk.nl>
>>> Cc: users at ovirt.org
>>> Subject: Re: [Users] Node ISO problem
>>> Message-ID:<4F4519B4.9020803 at redhat.com>
>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>
>>> On 02/22/2012 11:30 AM, Michel van Horssen wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Took me some time before I had time to install the new Ovirt. Now
>>>> that I did
>>> have time, the install was a breeze. Having the RPM repo available
>>> helpt a lot off course. :)
>>>> I have the engine running and storage is connected as is the ISO nfs.
>>>>
>>>> Now I wanted to get a VM host running by booting the node ISO but am
>>> running in to a problem.
>>>> I put the iso via a NAS as a virtual CD on a SuperMicro systems
>>>> IPMI. Once I
>>> boot the machine for the first time, so to install the node, it ends with:
>>>> ---
>>>> dracut Warning: No root device "live:/dev/disk/by-label/ovirt-node-
>image"
>>> found
>>>> Dropping to debug shell.
>>>>
>>>> sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
>>>>
>>>> dracut:
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Looking in /dev/disk there is no by-label directory.
>>>>
>>>> I get this error with 'ovirt-node-image-2.2.2-2.2.fc16.iso' and the
>>>> latest 'ovirt-
>>> node-image-2.2.3-1.1.fc16.iso'
>>>> This is on first install.
>>>>
>>>> Hope to have a host up and running this week.
>>>>
>>>> Any help is appriciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thnx,
>>>>
>>>> Michel
>>>>
>>>> aka mivaho on irc
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>--
>
>Thanks,
>
>Rami Vaknin, QE @ Red Hat, TLV, IL.