Kickstart hangs at dracut-initqueue (CentOS 7.2)

Frantisek Krecmer f.krecmer at gmail.com
Thu Apr 14 19:46:03 UTC 2016


Hello,

I had similar problem with RHEL7 recently and it was caused by network. I
configured wrong NIC during installation and it dropped to dracut shell.

Regards,
FK

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:20 PM, therbur <fxb7-ox9n at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:

> therbur <fxb7-ox9n at dea.spamcon.org> wrote:
>
> >I have a Cobbler setup that loads a CentOS 5.7 OK.  I am trying to add a
> >CentOS 7.2 load.
> >
> >It stops just after the line that shows:
> >
> >... dracut-initqueue ...  Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
> >
> >Actually, it doesn't stop, it just pauses a long time, then says dozens of
> >messages like:
> >
> >... warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts
> >
> >Then it comes to a "dracut>" prompt.  Doing "journalctl" as it suggests, I
> >don't see anything obvious that would tell me the actual problem.  Also
> >tried "cat /proc/cmdline" and it worked, didn't see anything unusual.
> >
> >What is it looking for when it gets to the dracut-initqueue line?  What
> >are some possible causes/solutions?
>
> No ideas?  In case it's helpful, here's the dracut rdsosreport.txt for the
> problem:
>
> http://pastebin.com/uyx8p9bA
>
>
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