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How to collect data from dracut shell

Question & Answer


Question

How to get more information about what happens during a failure of Rhel7 install

Answer

If it fails completely then it may automatically create a file:

/run/initramfs/rdsosreport.txt

Then can be uploaded for analysis.

However, even if there is no rdsosreport.txt file created you can still gather the logs by doing the following:

journalctl > out.txt

Then scp it off the server or take screenshots if necessary. See examples below:

here you can see the ks was read successfully:


But the error indicates a bad ks file:




This shell allows you basic networking such as:


[{"Product":{"code":"SGMV157","label":"IBM Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU058","label":"IBM Infrastructure w\/TPS"},"Component":"Support information","Platform":[{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"}],"Version":"Version Independent","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB26","label":"Storage"}}]

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12 August 2021

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