Kickstart initrd

[gsn4ever]

Hi All,

I am kickstarting Rocky 8.8 in Supermicro SYS-5019S-W4TR.

in PXE + tftpd + dhcp env

After
Loading images/vmlinuz… ok
Loading images/initrd.img… ok

System Reboots.
Not entering into Installer.

I tryed replacing the with Rocky 8.0 and Rocky 9.0 initrd.img file in PXE Server.

STATUS:
Starting Installer, one moment…

…
…
Service org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Storage has failed to start: Failed to activate service ‘org.fedoraproject.Anaconda.Modules.Storage’: timed out (service_start_timeout=600000ms)

Pane is Dead (status 1, DATE).

How to handle this? any files to be added from 8.0 and 9.0 initrd.img to my current 8.8 initrd.img.

Thanks
Sathiya Narayanan

[LinuxGuy1997]

What is the exact kickstart line you are using for this?

[gsn4ever]

I was using the following kickstart …

label Rocky8.8
menu label Install NewRocky
kernel images/vmlinuz nomodeset
append initrd=images/initrd.img inst.ks=http:///ks/newrocky.cfg ip=eth0:dhcp ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 bootdev=eth0 inst.syslog= inst.text inst.resoulution=1024x768 nomodeset

[LinuxGuy1997]

Thanks. OK, and how do you have the url source defined in this config file?

@gsn4ever

inst.ks=http:///ks/newrocky.cfg

What is the general layout of the source files and directories there?

[jbkt23]

http:///ks/newrocky.cfg

There appears to be a group of (3) forward slashes in the url, is that correct? Typically it is (2).

[gsn4ever]

Hi , Looks like firmware issue in the initrd.img which we have.

Extracted the rocky 9 initrd image. consolidated the additional files from the initrd 8.8 + initrd 9.0. and kickstart worked.

now the server is up.

Thanks for your reply.

Thanks
Sathiya Narayanan