Installing from the rescue OS from the network fails

slnm · Jul 28, 2016, 2:58 AM

I have a Netgate RCC-VE 2440 pfSense firewall. The firmware upgrade failed, the kernel got hosed and now I'm trying to reinstall from a rescue OS image (to save my configuration) per the instructions at https://netgate.com/docs/reference/centos-rescue.html#installation-from-the-ipxe-command-prompt.

I give this command to IPXE:

chain http://install.netgate.com/rescue/CentOS7/centos7-rescue.ipxe

I'm not sure if I have MSATA or EMMC (I inherited the firewall) so I tried the install with both. No luck. Here's the information that didn't scroll by.

[ 2.659173] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[ 2.659248] drop_monitor: Initializing network drop monitor service
[ 2.659429] TCP: cubic registered
[ 2.659432] Initializing XFRM netlink socket
[ 2.659695] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[ 2.660090] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[ 2.660676] Loading compiled-in X.509 certificates
[ 2.660744] Loaded X.509 cert 'CentOS Linux kpatch signing key: ea0413152cde1d98ebdca3fe6f0230904c9ef717'
[ 2.660792] Loaded X.509 cert 'CentOS Linux Driver update signing key: 7f421ee0ab69461574bb358861dbe77762a4201b'
[ 2.662802] Loaded X.509 cert 'CentOS Linux kernel signing key: bc83d0fe70c62fab1c58b4ebaa95e3936128fcf4'
[ 2.662829] registered taskstats version 1
[ 2.663496] Key type trusted registered
[ 2.664224] Key type encrypted registered
[ 2.664694] IMA: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
[ 2.786878] rtc_cmos 00:06: setting system clock to 2016-07-28 02:39:17 UTC (1469673557)
[ 2.786916] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 2.800714] md: Waiting for all devices to be available before autodetect
[ 2.808314] md: If you don't use raid, use raid=noautodetect
[ 2.815012] md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
[ 2.819602] md: Scanned 0 and added 0 devices.
[ 2.824570] md: autorun …
[ 2.827684] md: … autorun DONE.
[ 2.831466] List of all partitions:
[ 2.835382] No filesystem could mount root, tried:
[ 2.840853] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 2.850089] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 #1
[ 2.858156] Hardware name: ADI Engineering RCC-VE/RCC-VE, BIOS ADI_RCCVE-01.00.00.05-nodebug 07/15/2015
[ 2.868651] ffffffff817dfe50 00000000881410c5 ffff880179a77d60 ffffffff815e19ba
[ 2.876928] ffff880179a77de0 ffffffff815db549 ffffffff00000010 ffff880179a77df0
[ 2.885202] ffff880179a77d90 00000000881410c5 00000000881410c5 ffff880179a77e00
[ 2.893475] Call Trace:
[ 2.896214] [<ffffffff815e19ba>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[ 2.901958] [<ffffffff815db549>] panic+0xd8/0x1e7
[ 2.907313] [<ffffffff81a0755d>] mount_block_root+0x2a1/0x2b0
[ 2.913822] [<ffffffff81a075bf>] mount_root+0x53/0x56
[ 2.919564] [<ffffffff81a076fe>] prepare_namespace+0x13c/0x174
[ 2.926180] [<ffffffff81a071cb>] kernel_init_freeable+0x203/0x22a
[ 2.933086] [<ffffffff81a0692b>] ? do_early_param+0x88/0x88
[ 2.939413] [<ffffffff815c3930>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[ 2.945243] [<ffffffff815c393e>] kernel_init+0xe/0x180
[ 2.951082] [<ffffffff815f206c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
[ 2.957115] [<ffffffff815c3930>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80

Help!

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DiskWizard · Sep 4, 2016, 9:42 AM

Something is really wrong with your boot devices/configuration. You have to make a little investigation and reveal your config to all of us. Maybe your storage device rendered inoperable ?

luckman212 · Dec 23, 2016, 5:32 PM

I am having the same issue today, trying to restore the factory CentOS to a RCC-DFF 2220. Tried multiple times using both USB from here as well as iPXE from http://install.netgate.com/rescue/CentOS7/centos7-rescue.ipxe

Anyone have any ideas?? edit: here's a screenshot of the console output

edit2: I tried another method that I had notes on from somewhere… this resulted in a slightly different but equally catastrophic failure (screenshot below)

# initrd http://firmware.netgate.com/netinst/CentOS7/images/pxeboot/initrd.img

# chain http://firmware.netgate.com/netinst/CentOS7/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz console=ttyS1,115200n8 ip=eth0:dhcp ks=http://firmware.netgate.com/netinst/ks.cfg inst.cmdline inst.text inst.headless net.ifnames=0

I have that "/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt" file attached here as well.

rdsosreport.txt