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Deployment Troubleshouting
Failing Network Connection
Is the network MAC address correct and registered at PacketFence, e.g. for the office network?
Failing Network Connection using Thunderbolt Dock
On a Thunderbolt dock the installation kernel may start fine, but the downloading the Kickstart file from the sysdb API may fail due to no network connection available. This is due to Thunderbolt needing user authorization before it makes the functionality like networking available.
Depending on firmware/BIOS, you may change how Thunderbolt authorization behaves (temporarily) in the settings.
Another "easy" workaround is to use some other device, e.g. a USB network adapter for the installation as such.
If you really want to authorize the Thunderbolt dock before the installation starts, then you need to break the boot:
FQDN=...
bob node set-attr $FQDN 'kernel_cmdline=rd.break=cmdline'
after you start the installation you get first to the shell, where you need to run for Thunderbolt devize authorization:
for f in /sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/*/authorized; do echo 1 > $f; done
exit
then the network connection should set up automatically and the installation should start.
After the installation has been successfully started undo the boot break:
bob node del-attr $FQDN kernel_cmdline