centos 6 image doesn't boot after creation

[Pedro Sousa]

Procedure:

#git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/diskimage-builder.git

#git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/tripleo-image-elements.git

#git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/heat-templates.git

#git clone https://git.openstack.org/openstack/dib-utils.git

#export PATH="$ {PWD} /dib-utils/bin:$PATH"

#export ELEMENTS_PATH=tripleo-image-elements/elements:heat-templates/hot/software-config/elements

#diskimage-builder/bin/disk-image-create vm centos selinux-permissive os-collect-config os-refresh-config os-apply-config heat-config-cfn-init heat-config-puppet heat-config-script -o centos6.qcow

# glance image-create --disk-format qcow2 --container-format bare --name centos6-cloud < centos6.qcow2

Result:

after nova server launch the vm doesn't boot, please see the attached screenshot.

[Holger King (holger-king)]

We get the same error during boot (see initial screenshot of Pedro Sousa enclosed) when trying to create a:
- centos

custom QCOW2 image with less DIB elements involved compared to the ones provided by Pedro Sousa. Here, the command:
diskimage-builder/bin/disk-image-create -a amd64 vm centos -o CentOS-6.6-x86_64-openshift-origin-broker

When taking a look on the downloaded CentOS cloud image size compared with the repackaged size during the DIB run in:
/root/.cache/image-create

we see a big difference. We assume, there is the problem!

[Holger King (holger-king)]

Or is it maybe the fatal error during the Kernel update, saying:

...
Installing : kernel....x86_64
grubby fatal error: unable to find a suitable template
...

[Peter Nordquist (pnnl-plnordquist)]

I'm having this same issue and it has been preventing me from using sahara-image-elements repository with HDP. I've even used a minimal command to only use the vm and centos elements and it's not booting. I'm currently using the RDO packages version 0.1.42-3.el7 of diskimage-builder.

[Peter Nordquist (pnnl-plnordquist)]

I was able to build bootable images when I swapped over to building images from an Ubuntu 14.04 host from a Centos 7.1 host. The one difference I could see was the extlinux install process. It seems to report two different devices for the partition device.

Ubuntu:
+ extlinux --install /boot/extlinux
/boot/extlinux is device /dev/disk/by-label/cloudimg-rootfs

Centos:
+ extlinux --install /boot/extlinux
/boot/extlinux is device /dev/loop0p1

I'm not sure if this is related at all to this bug though since sometimes Ubuntu reports /dev/loop0p1 as the boot disk. Much of my testing has been with diskimage-builder tag 1.1.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 now.

[Maxim (popov-max)]

Any updates on this issue ?

I'm building a CentOS 6 image and get the same error as on the screenshot from the first post.

# git clone https://github.com/openstack/diskimage-builder.git
# DIB_RELEASE=GenericCloud diskimage-builder/bin/disk-image-create -a amd64 -o centos6-amd64 vm centos

[fxpester (a-yurtaykin)]

just hit it when tried to make rhel7 image, any workarounds ?

commands to reproduce:

export DIB_LOCAL_IMAGE=rhel-guest-image-7.2-20160302.0.x86_64.qcow2 && disk-image-create --install-type package -x -x -t raw rhel7 rhel-common baremetal dhcp-all-interfaces grub2 -o rhel7_ironic

then mount image and check grub.conf, you will see the only option is to boot in rescue mode.

[Gaoxiao Zhu (zhugaoxiao)]

I have the same question，when i building a CentOS 6 image.

[Gaoxiao Zhu (zhugaoxiao)]

the build log,using cli: disk-image-create -x centos baremetal dhcp-all-interfaces grub2 -o centos-baremetal

[Jeffrey Zhang (jeffrey4l)]

Got the same error message by using latest diskimage-builder (1.24.0).

any progress and workaround?

[Michal Adamczyk (vanditboy)]

Hi,

I have same issue building CentOS 6 with version 1.26.1. Any progress here?

Kind regards,
Michal.

[Michal Adamczyk (vanditboy)]

FYI: I am using CentOS 7.3 with all latest updates. I have tried to build it with following images: CentOS-6-x86_64-GenericCloud-1611.qcow2.xz, CentOS-6-x86_64-GenericCloud-1612.qcow2.xz and the default one. I did it with "grub2" element and without - same result as on Pedro's screenshot.

[Michal Adamczyk (vanditboy)]

FYI: I did test on Ubuntu 14.04 with the latest updates and it works...
So only CentOS 7.3 is impacted in my case.

[Jeffrey Zhang (jeffrey4l)]

I built a centos6 just now, this issue still happen, any update?

[Michal Adamczyk (vanditboy)]

Same for me when building on CentOS 7 with the latest diskimage-builder 2.2 release...

[Junbo Jiang (junbo)]

HI ALL

Disable 64bit feature can resolve this problem, syslinux currently not support this feature with ext4, see http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Filesystem

the following command can build centos 6 image successfully.

disk-image-create --mkfs-options "-O ^64bit" centos vm

[MarginHu (margin2017)]

I want to know why use syslinux instead of grub.

[Luigi Toscano (ltoscano)]

Maybe because centos6 has grub1, not grub2, and adding the code for syslinux was easier.

This may be all moot now, anyway: the centos element has been removed starting from diskimage-builder version 2.7:
https://review.openstack.org/#/c/478344/