RHEL6 Anaconda freezes when using satellite 6 discovery image PXE-less ISO

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When trying to provision a RHEL6u7 system on RHEV using VNC display or on bare metal Dell R630 over iDRAC, the foreman-image ISO the system freezes
root@fdi tmp]# kexec  -d --force --append="ks=ks=http://sat6mmello.usersys.redhat.com:80/unattended/provision&static=yes kssendmac nicdelay=5 ip=10.10.181.64 netmask=255.255.248.0 gateway=10.10.183.254 dns=10.11.5.4 ksdevice=00:1a:4a:9f:10:02 BOOTIF=00-1a-4a-9f-10-02 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 acpi=force" --initrd /tmp/RedHat-6.7-x86_64-initrd.img  /tmp/RedHat-6.7-x86_64-vmlinuz 
kernel: 0x7fe8f1d64010 kernel_size: 0x406cf0
MEMORY RANGES
0000000000000100-000000000009bbff (0)
000000000009bc00-000000000009ffff (1)
00000000000f0000-00000000000fffff (1)
0000000000100000-000000007fffbfff (0)
000000007fffc000-000000007fffffff (1)
00000000fffbc000-00000000ffffffff (1)
bzImage is relocatable
sym: sha256_update info: 12 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 5a90 size: 154
sym: sha256_update value: 7fff6a90 addr: 7fff1005
R_X86_64_64
sym: sha256_regions info: 11 other: 00 shndx: 8 value: 20 size: 100
sym: sha256_regions value: 7fff8020 addr: 7fff1010
R_X86_64_64
sym: sha256_starts info: 12 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 1190 size: 79
sym: sha256_starts value: 7fff2190 addr: 7fff1037
R_X86_64_64
sym: sha256_regions info: 11 other: 00 shndx: 8 value: 20 size: 100
sym: sha256_regions value: 7fff8120 addr: 7fff1053
[... SNIP ...]
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff1814 addr: 7fff7288
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff184e addr: 7fff72a8
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff1886 addr: 7fff72bc
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff1d34 addr: 7fff72f8
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff1d74 addr: 7fff7328
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff1e1a addr: 7fff7344
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff1f60 addr: 7fff7388
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff215c addr: 7fff73b8
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff2190 addr: 7fff73e8
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff2209 addr: 7fff7408
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff6a90 addr: 7fff7428
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .text info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 1 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .text value: 7fff6be4 addr: 7fff7448
R_X86_64_PC32
sym:      .data info: 03 other: 00 shndx: 8 value: 0 size: 0
sym: .data value: 7fff8120 addr: 7fff8122
R_X86_64_64
Loaded purgatory at addr 0x7fff1000
Loaded real-mode code and command line at 0x3000
Loaded 32bit kernel at 0x1000000
initrd_addr_max is 0x7fffffff
Loaded initrd at 0x7dd37000 size 0x22b967a
E820 memmap:
0000000000000100-000000000009bbff (1)
000000000009bc00-000000000009ffff (2)
00000000000f0000-00000000000fffff (2)
0000000000100000-000000007fffbfff (1)
000000007fffc000-000000007fffffff (2)
00000000fffbc000-00000000ffffffff (2)
/sys/firmware/edd does not exist.
kexec_load: entry = 0x7fff17e0 flags = 0x3e0000
nr_segments = 4
segment[0].buf   = 0x115c770
segment[0].bufsz = 0x375f
segment[0].mem   = 0x3000
segment[0].memsz = 0x4000
segment[1].buf   = 0x7fe8f1d67610
segment[1].bufsz = 0x4036f0
segment[1].mem   = 0x1000000

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite 6.1.5+
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
  • Libvirt
  • VMware ESXi
  • Dell R630 over iDRAC

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