[CentOS] cannot kickstart centos 6 on Dell Blade error cannot find c0t0

[Steven Tardy]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Dan Hyatt <dhyatt at dsgmail.wustl.edu> wrote:

> I have an intermittent problem with my Dell blades, out of 80 blades 69
> of them kickstarted Centos 6 fine using PXE
> The other 11, I get a   c0t0 not found error  (indicating it is not
> finding the local disk on the blade).
>
> I can remote mount the iso image and do a basic install of centos on
> these blades, but when I go to do a pxe boot it gives me that error again.
>
> I have googled the issue and come up empty handed. Dell told us to
> install centos 6 minimal ISO  then pxe install the server. This has been
> unsuccessful. I get the local ISO to install but the pxe fails again.
>
> Since the kickstart file defines the disk as sda1  I am supposing that
> it is really a hardware problem.
> But I am told by coworkers who handed it off to me that it is a known
> issue with centos and Dell blades.
>
> These are two internal disks on the blade.
>
> Any suggestions?



install "working" blade from .iso
install "non-working" blade from .iso
diff anaconda-ks.cfg.working ananconda-ks.cfg.non-working