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2021-Jul-06 10:49 UTC

[CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart

On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 at 07:57, Hooton, Gerard <g.hooton at ucc.ie>
wrote:>
> The computer is Lenovo Thinkstation p620
> From df command I see:
> Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> devtmpfs                      16G     0   16G   0% /dev
> tmpfs                         16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm
> tmpfs                         16G   26M   16G   1% /run
> tmpfs                         16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> /dev/mapper/cs_uews027-root   70G  7.1G   63G  11% /
> /dev/nvme0n1p2              1014M  386M  629M  39% /boot
> /dev/nvme0n1p1               599M  7.3M  592M   2% /boot/efi
> /dev/mapper/cs_uews027-home  390G  2.8G  387G   1% /home
> tmpfs                        3.2G  8.0K  3.2G   1% /run/user/42
> tmpfs                        3.2G     0  3.2G   0% /run/user/0
>
I am not familiar with this hardware, and a quick looks shows that
there are a lot of variations on the p620. However I did find
https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/ts_p620_redhat_enterprise_linux_8_installation_v1.0.pdf
and
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/pdf/configuring_device_mapper_multipath/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-8-Configuring_device_mapper_multipath-en-US.pdf

I haven't used multipath and hope some people who have better ideas
will chime in, but at this point I would see if passing the PXE kernel
boot a  `nvme_core.multipath=N` helps any.

> See attached files for more info.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at
gmail.com<mailto:Stephen%20John%20Smoogen%20%3csmooge at gmail.com%3e>>
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> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart
> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:28:05 -0400
>
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>
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> On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 at 07:15, Hooton, Gerard <
>
> <mailto:g.hooton at ucc.ie>
>
> g.hooton at ucc.ie
>
> > wrote:
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am having problems with a kickstart install of CentOS 8
>
> When I try to do a completely automated install  using PXE/UEFI  it get to
the point where it reads the kickstart config file.
>
> Then I see the following message
>
> "kickstart install Started cancel waiting for multipath siblings for
nvme0n1"
>
>
>
> The above says that the system thinks your box is multipath but the
>
> other drives are not showing up correctly. You will need to provide a
>
> lot more information for anyone to be able to help diagnosis this for
>
> you:
>
>
> 1. What is the build system
>
> 2. What kind of drives/drive controller is it
>
> 3. What is the rest of the kickstart that might tell it that it is
multipath?
>
> 4. What are the pxe/uefi boot options in case that is telling it to
>
> try and probe for multipath that doesn't exist.
>
>
>
> This is what I have in the kickstart file
>
>
> # Clear the Master Boot Record
>
> zerombr
>
> # Partition clearing information
>
> clearpart --all --initlabel
>
> autopart --nohome --type=lvm --fstype=xfs
>
>  ===============>
>
> When I install from a USB drive it works OK and I have the following in 
/dev/disk/by-id
>
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  13 Jul  5 10:28
nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810 -> ../../nvme0n1
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  13 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d ->
../../nvme0n1
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part3
-> ../../nvme0n1p3
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28
nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part3
-> ../../nvme0n1p3
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28
lvm-pv-uuid-5Dg4mg-saHa-hJJ6-n5a8-MxBS-gdFi-5jPoNn -> ../../nvme0n1p3
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part2
UNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-0-> ../../nvme0n1p2
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28
nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part2
-> ../../nvme0n1p2
>
> drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 400 Jul  5 10:28 .
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part1
-> ../../nvme0n1p1
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28
nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part1
-> ../../nvme0n1p1
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07
dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkKtEdtLjwJQyIdxJcSvPv8TEAjwYGMv6yU
-> ../../dm-0
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07
dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkKAooqrczySYJyiHvUAUji9oScPN2cVi7J
-> ../../dm-1
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-swap ->
../../dm-1
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-root ->
../../dm-0
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07
dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkK5HZXbR2ow5xKGuD7jVe4UPzZm2qRLLXI
-> ../../dm-2
>
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-home ->
../../dm-2
>
>
>
> It's looks like that I am not doing the disk drive stuff in the config
file correctly.
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Gerard Hooton.
>
> Senior Technical Officer
>
> School of Engineering.
>
> University College Cork.
>
> College Road.
>
> Cork.
>
> Ireland.
>
> Loc8: WDR-04-60G
>
> Tel: +353 21 4902296
>
> Mobile: +353 852813491
>
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> --
>
> Stephen J Smoogen.
>
> I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Flame wars in
>
> sci.astro.orion. I have seen SPAM filters overload because of Godwin's
>
> Law. All those moments will be lost in time... like posts on  BBS...
>
> time to reboot.
>
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>
> Gerard Hooton.
> Senior Technical Officer
> School of Engineering.
> University College Cork.
> College Road.
> Cork.
> Ireland.
> Loc8: WDR-04-60G
> Tel: +353 21 4902296
> Mobile: +353 852813491
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-- 
Stephen J Smoogen.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Flame wars in
sci.astro.orion. I have seen SPAM filters overload because of Godwin's
Law. All those moments will be lost in time... like posts on  BBS...
time to reboot.

Hooton, Gerard

2021-Jul-07 12:28 UTC

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[CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart

I put nvme_core.multipath=N in the grub.cfg as follows
linuxefi /Centos8/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=CentOS-8-x86_64-dvd nvme_core.multipath=N rd.live.check
inst.ks=http://192.168.1.10/kickstart/ks.cfg<http://143.239.132.208/kickstart/ks.cfg>

This did not solve the problem.

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 06:49:24 -0400


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On Mon, 5 Jul 2021 at 07:57, Hooton, Gerard <

<mailto:g.hooton at ucc.ie>

g.hooton at ucc.ie
> wrote:

The computer is Lenovo Thinkstation p620

From df command I see:

Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

devtmpfs                      16G     0   16G   0% /dev

tmpfs                         16G     0   16G   0% /dev/shm

tmpfs                         16G   26M   16G   1% /run

tmpfs                         16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

/dev/mapper/cs_uews027-root   70G  7.1G   63G  11% /

/dev/nvme0n1p2              1014M  386M  629M  39% /boot

/dev/nvme0n1p1               599M  7.3M  592M   2% /boot/efi

/dev/mapper/cs_uews027-home  390G  2.8G  387G   1% /home

tmpfs                        3.2G  8.0K  3.2G   1% /run/user/42

tmpfs                        3.2G     0  3.2G   0% /run/user/0



I am not familiar with this hardware, and a quick looks shows that

there are a lot of variations on the p620. However I did find

<https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/ts_p620_redhat_enterprise_linux_8_installation_v1.0.pdf>

https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/thinkcentre_pdf/ts_p620_redhat_enterprise_linux_8_installation_v1.0.pdf


and

<https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/pdf/configuring_device_mapper_multipath/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-8-Configuring_device_mapper_multipath-en-US.pdf>

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/pdf/configuring_device_mapper_multipath/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-8-Configuring_device_mapper_multipath-en-US.pdf



I haven't used multipath and hope some people who have better ideas

will chime in, but at this point I would see if passing the PXE kernel

boot a  `nvme_core.multipath=N` helps any.



See attached files for more info.

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Subject: Re: [CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 07:28:05 -0400



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g.hooton at ucc.ie



wrote:



Hi All,


I am having problems with a kickstart install of CentOS 8


When I try to do a completely automated install  using PXE/UEFI  it get to the
point where it reads the kickstart config file.


Then I see the following message


"kickstart install Started cancel waiting for multipath siblings for
nvme0n1"




The above says that the system thinks your box is multipath but the


other drives are not showing up correctly. You will need to provide a


lot more information for anyone to be able to help diagnosis this for


you:



1. What is the build system


2. What kind of drives/drive controller is it


3. What is the rest of the kickstart that might tell it that it is multipath?


4. What are the pxe/uefi boot options in case that is telling it to


try and probe for multipath that doesn't exist.




This is what I have in the kickstart file



# Clear the Master Boot Record


zerombr


# Partition clearing information


clearpart --all --initlabel


autopart --nohome --type=lvm --fstype=xfs


 ===============


When I install from a USB drive it works OK and I have the following in 
/dev/disk/by-id



lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  13 Jul  5 10:28
nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810 -> ../../nvme0n1


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  13 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d ->
../../nvme0n1


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part3 ->
../../nvme0n1p3


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28
nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part3 -> ../../nvme0n1p3


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part3 ->
../../nvme0n1p3


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28
lvm-pv-uuid-5Dg4mg-saHa-hJJ6-n5a8-MxBS-gdFi-5jPoNn -> ../../nvme0n1p3


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part2
UNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-0-> ../../nvme0n1p2


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28
nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part2 -> ../../nvme0n1p2


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part2 ->
../../nvme0n1p2


drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 400 Jul  5 10:28 .


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 wwn-eui.002538b11102f46d-part1 ->
../../nvme0n1p1


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28
nvme-SAMSUNG_MZVL2512HCJQ-00BL7_S64KNE0R161810-part1 -> ../../nvme0n1p1


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  15 Jul  5 10:28 nvme-eui.002538b11102f46d-part1 ->
../../nvme0n1p1


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07
dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkKtEdtLjwJQyIdxJcSvPv8TEAjwYGMv6yU
-> ../../dm-0


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07
dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkKAooqrczySYJyiHvUAUji9oScPN2cVi7J
-> ../../dm-1


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-swap ->
../../dm-1


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-root ->
../../dm-0


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07
dm-uuid-LVM-qQok4M7AOo1TxZZ42GwZcbuVNBs0hnkK5HZXbR2ow5xKGuD7jVe4UPzZm2qRLLXI
-> ../../dm-2


lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  10 Jul  5 11:07 dm-name-cs_uews027-home ->
../../dm-2




It's looks like that I am not doing the disk drive stuff in the config file
correctly.




--



Gerard Hooton.


Senior Technical Officer


School of Engineering.


University College Cork.


College Road.


Cork.


Ireland.


Loc8: WDR-04-60G


Tel: +353 21 4902296


Mobile: +353 852813491


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CentOS at centos.org




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Stephen J Smoogen.


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Flame wars in


sci.astro.orion. I have seen SPAM filters overload because of Godwin's


Law. All those moments will be lost in time... like posts on  BBS...


time to reboot.


_______________________________________________


CentOS mailing list


<mailto:

<mailto:CentOS at centos.org>

CentOS at centos.org
>

<mailto:CentOS at centos.org>

CentOS at centos.org




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--


Gerard Hooton.

Senior Technical Officer

School of Engineering.

University College Cork.

College Road.

Cork.

Ireland.

Loc8: WDR-04-60G

Tel: +353 21 4902296

Mobile: +353 852813491

_______________________________________________

CentOS mailing list

<mailto:CentOS at centos.org>

CentOS at centos.org


<https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>

https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos





--

Stephen J Smoogen.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Flame wars in

sci.astro.orion. I have seen SPAM filters overload because of Godwin's

Law. All those moments will be lost in time... like posts on  BBS...

time to reboot.

_______________________________________________

CentOS mailing list

<mailto:CentOS at centos.org>

CentOS at centos.org


<https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos>

https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos


--

Gerard Hooton.
Senior Technical Officer
School of Engineering.
University College Cork.
College Road.
Cork.
Ireland.
Loc8: WDR-04-60G
Tel: +353 21 4902296
Mobile: +353 852813491

CentOS - Jul 2021 - Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart

[CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart

[CentOS] Problems with CentOS 8 kickstart