I’ve tried to setup a PXE boot server using the pxeboot files provided here : https://download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/BaseOS/x86_64/kickstart/images/pxeboot
It boots fine, but I have to wait for a job on /dev/zram0 to fail during 1m30s :
The XFS message you’re looking at is not the issue, it’s a symptom.
With that being said, my PXE environment is not having any issues. This leads me to believe that the boot arguments you’re using are not valid and/or your environment is not sufficiently set up.
I would check the following:
Your VM has enough RAM (the minimum as stated by Red Hat is 4gb, you may get away with 3gb, but this is up to you to determine this)
Your boot arguments are correct (I recommend that inst.repo and inst.stage2 both be specified)
Thank you very much for your reply AND your amazing work on Rocky Linux !
You nailed it. I was missing the inst.stage2= boot option.
By chance, it used to work with 9.0 vmlinuz/initrd files without specifying that runtime image.
Good to hear! I might be misremembering, but there was a point that inst.repo used to work just fine and the stage2 would be automatically determined… I don’t know if this was changed behavior, but I’ve always just used both because I’ve been bitten in the past.
