perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Brian Tierney <>]

Hi Mark:

The netinstall image can be mounted on a usb drive. Maybe you can try that, and see if that works better.

On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Mark Gardner <> wrote:

The latest live USB
(pS-Performance_Toolkit-3.3.2-10-LiveUSB-x86_64.iso) caused a panic
when I trial booted it on my Thinkpad T430. Here is the last screen
full of messages:

=== Begin ===
dracut: 3 logical volumes(3) in volume group "xxxx" now active
dracut Warning: No root device "block:/dev/mapper/live-rw" found

dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this issue add "rdshell" to
the kernel command line.

dracut Warning: Signal caught!

dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this issue add "rdshell" to
the kernel command line.
Kernel panic = not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.-32-431.29.2.e16.aufs.web100.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8152ba4c>] ? panic+0xa7/0x16f
 [<ffffffff81077342>] ? do_exit+0x862/0x870
 [<ffffffff8118a885>] ? fput+0x25/0x30
 [<ffffffff810773a8>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
 [<ffffffff81077437>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
 [<ffffffff8100b072>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
=== End ===

The live CD version boots fine. Unfortunately, the server I am
deploying does not have a CD drive. I am counting on being able to
boot from the USB key.

Mark
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Mark Gardner
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