From: Pierre B. <pie...@un...> - 2014-03-12 17:50:34
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Hello, I made some others test. A Debian wheezy 64bits netinstall or an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 64 bits netinstall work fine. For me a I take the default Debian kernel and initrd from the installation and i use it with PXE. The process stop when the init process try to find root partition. All is OK because i haven't changed the PXE cmdline to boot normally. So, I tried to take this kernel and one initrd created by si_prepareclient on this fresh installation. I have exactly the same problem of /init not found. I think the problem, is in the generating of the initrd but i don't know how to debug it. I have updated the BIOS. Have you an other idea ? Regards Le 11/03/2014 10:00, LAHAYE Olivier a écrit : > > Then I would try rhel6 netinstall or fedora20 netinstall > the rhel6 kernel is often well tested by DELL. > > I would also try t-o install latest BIOS. > > As a last resort I would call DEeLL support, maybe you have an hardware bug, or maybe a BIOS config bug that is listed in a knowledge base. > > Best regards, > > Olivier. > > -- > Olivier LAHAYE > CEA DRT/LIST/DIR > > ________________________________________ > De : Pierre BLONDEAU [pie...@un...] > Envoyé : lundi 10 mars 2014 19:09 > À : sis...@li... > Objet : Re: [sisuite-users] Kernel panic on boot on DELL R720 > > Le 10/03/2014 11:39, Pierre BLONDEAU a écrit : >> Hy, >> >> Thank you for the answer. >> >> The ubuntu's server kernel point to linux-image-3.2.0-60-generic, i have >> tried it ( and double check now to be sure ). >> >> I see in the page that i must use a kernel at least 3.8 for Intel's >> E5-2600v2 precessor. But i have aslo tried >> linux-image-generic-lts-raring -> 3.8.0.37.37 and >> linux-image-generic-lts-saucy -> 3.11.0.18.17 . >> >> Did you say i should try the installer kernel ( from the netinst ) as >> pxe kernel ? > > Hy, > > I have tried with the netinstall kernel and i have the same kernel panic > less the call trace: > > Freeing unused kernel memory : 836k (....) > Failed to execute /init > Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to > kernel. See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance. > > Have you a other idea ? > > Regards >> >> Regards >> >> Le 10/03/2014 10:07, LAHAYE Olivier a écrit : >>> I would suggest to use this release for the deployment server: >>> http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201205-10987/ and the >>> enable use your own kernel. This may help. >>> >>> Best regards. >>> >>> -- >>> Olivier LAHAYE >>> CEA DRT/LIST/DIR >>> >>> ________________________________________ >>> De : Pierre BLONDEAU [pie...@un...] >>> Envoyé : vendredi 7 mars 2014 17:24 >>> À : sis...@li... >>> Objet : [sisuite-users] Kernel panic on boot on DELL R720 >>> >>> Good After Noon, >>> >>> We recently purchased a DELL R720. >>> >>> Network cards in this machine are too recent for our old kernel. It's a >>> personalise ubuntu 2.6.32 with maximum of module. We had compiled the >>> version 1.6.2 of the e1000e driver's . This version is too old for our >>> machine. This kernel boot correctly, but the installation plant during >>> the network configuration. >>> >>> So we tried with kernels 3.X after have patched si_prepareclient. >>> >>> We tested a lot of combinations: >>> - Kernel : 3.2, 3.8 and 3.11 ( lts ubuntu ) >>> - si_prepareclient patched by us or that present in the 4.3 beta on >>> http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/repos/unstable/ >>> >>> We also tried the kernel and initrd provided by >>> systemimager-boot-amd64-standard: >>> - 4.1.99.svn4556yaubert -> >>> http://download.systemimager.org/debian/pool/main/s/systemimager/ >>> - 4.3 -> >>> http://svn.oscar.openclustergroup.org/repos/unstable/debian-7-x86_64/Early >>> >>> >>> At the begining, we have a kernel panic that looks like: >>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 532k freed >>> Failed to execute /init >>> Kernel panic - not syncing: No init found. Try passing init= option to >>> kernel. >>> See Linux Documentation/init.txt for guidance. >>> Pid: 1, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.7.5-boel_v4.3.0 #1 >>> Call Trace: >>> [<ffffffff8134bbb1>] panic+0xb6/0x1b5 >>> [<ffffffff81340640>] ? rest_init+0x70/0x70 >>> [<ffffffff81340736>] kernel_init+0xf6/0x100 >>> [<ffffffff8135192c>] ret_form_fork+0x7c/0xb0 >>> [<ffffffff81340640>] ? rest_init+0x70/0x70 >>> >>> We tried disabling a maximum of kernel's arguments and increase the size >>> of ramdisk in PXE's command line but it does not change : >>> LABEL systemimager >>> KERNEL u64/new/kernel >>> APPEND initrd=u64/new/initrd.img root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=1000000 >>> >>> Do you have an idea ? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Regards >>> >>> -- >>> ---------------------------------------------- >>> Pierre BLONDEAU >>> Administrateur Systèmes & réseaux >>> Université de Caen >>> Laboratoire GREYC, Département d'informatique >>> >>> tel : 02 31 56 75 42 >>> bureau : Campus 2, Science 3, 406 >>> ---------------------------------------------- >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book >>> "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and >>> their >>> applications. 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