[Users] ovirt-node install hangs

[Fabian Deutsch]

Am Montag, den 08.10.2012, 09:24 +0100 schrieb Alexandre Santos:
> 2012/10/8 Fabian Deutsch <fabiand at redhat.com>
>         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

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