Linux machine going to dracut mode while loading centos7.6 full ISO using PXE

[Sugantha]

I am using centos7.6 and using PXE mode of installation. On bootup, client can able to reach the PXE server but It cannot able load the image and finally the machine going to dracut mode as below.

NOTE: Am using non motherboard interface for PXE operation

label tv_pxeboot
menu label Install VDSTV PXEBOOT
kernel vdstv/centos/vmlinuz
initrd vdstv/centos/initrd.img
append rdblacklist=e1000e,ixgbe ksdevice=eth0 ks=ftp://10.197.103.155/image/vdstv/centos/ks/ks_auto.cfg biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0 rw repo=ftp://10.197.103.155/image/vdstv/centos ks_zerombr

What could be the reason for going dracut prompt?

Thanks in Advance,
Sugantha

[TrevorH]

You'll have to scroll back up that window (use Shift-PgUp without switching away from the current console) to see whatever the error was. Most likely it was unable to retrieve the initrd image you pointed to or you have insufficient RAM for it to load it. Or you blacklisted the modules used for your ethernet connections and thus it wasn't able to load it due to no network connection?

[Sugantha]

Thanks for your reply.

In normal shell prompt, ftp is working as below. But in bootup it is failing. Also could see loading of initrd image in PXE screen. Attached the snaps.

wget ftp://10.197.103.155/image/vdstv/centos ... s_auto.cfg
--2020-07-26 22:21:11-- ftp://10.197.103.155/image/vdstv/centos ... s_auto.cfg
=> ‘ks_auto.cfg’
Connecting to 10.197.103.155:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /image/vdstv/centos76/ks ... done.
==> SIZE ks_auto.cfg ... 6528
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR ks_auto.cfg ... done.
Length: 6528 (6.4K) (unauthoritative)

100%[==========================================================================================================================>] 6,528 --.-K/s in 0s

2020-07-26 22:21:11 (664 MB/s) - ‘ks_auto.cfg’ saved [6528]


[root@VZ-Feature2-STR5 ~]# ethtool -i eth0
driver: igb
version: 5.4.0-k
firmware-version: 1.63, 0x800009fa
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:86:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes