WAT?

Today while rolling up new host in my company I hit the following issue after successfully installing CentOS7 on remote iSCSI drive. I just rebooted the machine and after GRUB done it's job I just got:

[   2.375332] i8042: No controller found
[   2.592960] dracut: FATAL: For argument 
    'ip=::::localhost.localdomain:eno1: none'\nValue 'none' 
    without static configuration does not make sanse
[   2.593074] dracut: Refusing to continue
[   3.197719] System halted.

What's that?

The answer is here. Simply installer is broken and it creates broken grub entry for iSCSI nodes.

How to fix this?

There're many ways. I just rebooted the box, entered the grub edit mode and fixed the boot param replacing:

linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 [...] 
    vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 
    ip=::::localhost.localdomain:eno1:none [...]

with this:

linux16 /vmlinuz-3.10.0-123.el7.x86_64 [...] 
    vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 
    ip=192.168.1.15::192.168.1.1:255.255.252.0:localhost.localdomain:eno1:none [...]

Where 192.168.1.15 is the initiator IP addr and 192.168.1.1 is the gateway IP.

Of course that above is just a way to successfully boot into the system. After boot the grub2.cfg is still broken so now it's the time for a permanent solution:

• Fix above again in /etc/sysconfig/grub
• Rebuild the grub configuration: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
• That's all. Just reboot and confirm it's working fine

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