Unable to consistently deploy overcloud nodes with Red Hat OpenStack 7.2
Issue
- Some deploy nodes stuck in wait call back during deploy
+--------------------------------------+------+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------------+-------------+
| UUID | Name | Instance UUID | Power State | Provision State | Maintenance |
+--------------------------------------+------+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------------+-------------+
| ************************************ | None | ************************************ | power on | active | False |
| ************************************ | None | ************************************ | power on | wait call-back | False |
|************************************ | None | ************************************ power on | active | False |
+--------------------------------------+------+--------------------------------------+-------------+-----------------+-------------+
- Looking at the console output of the overcloud nodes stuck in wait call-back, the failure occurs during the install_bootloader phase of the dracut pre-mount script /lib/dracut/hooks/pre-mount/50-init.sh. The error returned is "mount: you must specify the filesystem type" "Failed to mount root partition /dev/sda on /mnt/rootfs"
- Inconsistent director deploy
- Deployment nodes sometimes fail to deploy when using 7.2 ramdisk and kernel images
- The ironic nodes often end up in the wait call-back state until the time out period has expired.
- Some nodes will deploy while others fail.
- Failed node's console shows "mount: you must specify the filesystem type" "Failed to mount root partition /dev/sda on /mnt/rootfs"
- Failed deployment node seems to be stuck on nc -l -p 10000
- Sample screenshot of failed overcloud deployment node:

Environment
- Red Hat OpenStack 7.0
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