[Users] node iso installer drops into dracut with Supermicro Virtual CD drive

[Alexandre Santos]

I'm also hoping that these issues get solved in the future....

2013/1/29 Jorick Astrego <jorick at netbulae.eu>:
> On 01/29/2013 03:31 PM, Alexandre Santos wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> You should alter your grub command line. This is a bug on Fedora.
>> Instead of /dev/mapper/live-rw, it should be /dev/sr0, for instance...
>> Alex
>>
>>
>> 2013/1/29 Jorick Astrego <jorick at netbulae.eu>:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm still having the same problems booting from a virtual CD problems
>>> with
>>> the latest node iso
>>> (ovirt-node-iso-2.6.0-20130125090303git3839439.566.fc18.iso).
>>>
>>> The node boots into the installer and then drops into a dracut shell:
>>>
>>> dracut-initqueue[488]: Warning: Could not boot.
>>> dracut-initqueue[488]: Warning: /dev/disk/by-label/ovirt-node-iso does
>>> not
>>> exist
>>> dracut-initqueue[488]: Warning: /dev/mapper/live-rw does not exist
>>>
>>> dracut:/# blkid
>>> /dev/sr0: UUID="2013-01-28-01-35-21-00" LABEL="ovirt-node-iso"
>>> TYPE="iso9660" PTTYPE="dos"
>>>
>>> I'll use foreman to deploy it for now but it's making casual testing a
>>> bit
>>> harder.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kind Regards,
>>>
>>> Jorick Astrego
>>>
>>> Netbulae B.V.
>>>
>>>
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>
> Hi,
>
> Ok I can do that, but how do I do that on boot? I could modify the iso but I
> don't have the normal grub bootscreen so I can edit it.
>
> I tried replacing the CDLABEL parameter in the kernel arguments but this
> gets me nowhere.
>
> You state it's a bug on Fedora, but from a user perspective that doesn't
> matter.... it just doesn't work properly. And this hasn't worked for nearly
> a year now.
>
> An installer where you have to manually enter parameters on boot in a
> limited time window (a couple of seconds otherwise you have reboot again)
> doesn't make us admins happy.
>
>
> --
> Kind regards,
>
> Jorick Astrego
>
> Netbulae B.V.
>
>