trouble with pxe

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ggcentos7000
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trouble with pxe

Post by ggcentos7000 » 2017/05/22 18:09:08

I setup UEFI pxe with CENTOS 7.3 however when I do a pxe booting I eventually see following:
dracut-initueue[594]: calling settle several hundred times and eventually settle onto emergency shell prompt. Same image installed just fine with DVDROM, any idea?

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Re: trouble with pxe

Post by CaViCcHi » 2017/05/26 01:07:54

that happens when dracut is trying to get a root but it can't... so it keeps trying until eventually it fails.

what you can do is set breaks and add rd.break=iniqueue in cmdline (check out http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/dr ... ine.7.html)

so the you're going to be transported to a shell BEFORE the chosen action (in your case initqueue, which is really just a giant loop that tries to settle with a series of checks... just like "are we there yet?" "nope"... and on and on :) )

I'm not entirely sure what your system does but if you get at that point it means you're in dracut, so that means that at leas you got an initram running. So I wouldn't think your problem is PXE itself, but mostly what PXE provides (your pxe cfg file)

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