Is there a way to capture some debug on first boot? Instance never reboots to apply ignition.

[mister2d]

I am attempting to provision bare metal Dell servers. The PXE process works fine with a dnsmasq and matchbox combo, but once the servers boot up, it appears some process fails and retries over and over causing some sort of loop. Here is the console output with repeating messages. The raid controller is in "Enhanced HBA" mode to give some sort of native access to the drives. Any insight would be appreciated.

[  373.539446] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk.
[  373.637206] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  373.688148] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk.
[  373.771703] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  373.822516] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors.
[  373.891116]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda6 sda7 sda9
[  417.161276] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk.
[  417.256841] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  417.307391] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk.
[  417.386301] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  417.436987] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors.
[  417.505368]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda6 sda7 sda9
[  417.937928] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk.
[  418.033380] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  418.084051] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk.
[  418.163122] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  418.213798] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors.
[  418.282695]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda6 sda7 sda9
[  428.790052] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk.
[  428.885696] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  428.936429] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk.
[  429.016500] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  429.067126] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors.
[  429.136555]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda6 sda7 sda9
[  471.454301] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk.
[  471.549699] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  471.600502] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk.
[  471.679603] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  471.730950] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors.
[  471.799962]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda6 sda7 sda9
[  472.175803] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk.
[  472.271462] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  472.322099] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk.
[  472.401124] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  472.452324] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors.
[  472.520962]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda6 sda7 sda9
[  483.024733] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk.
[  483.121099] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  483.172312] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk.
[  483.251354] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  483.302206] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors.
[  483.370603]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda6 sda7 sda9
[  526.863678] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk.
[  526.959039] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  527.009831] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk.
[  527.089455] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  527.140643] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors.
[  527.209843]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda6 sda7 sda9
[  527.625306] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk.
[  527.720835] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  527.772319] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk.
[  527.851745] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  527.902615] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors.
[  527.971787]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda6 sda7 sda9
[  538.517962] GPT:Primary header thinks Alt. header is not at the end of the disk.
[  538.613466] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  538.664102] GPT:Alternate GPT header not at the end of the disk.
[  538.743828] GPT:9289727 != 3907029167
[  538.794617] GPT: Use GNU Parted to correct GPT errors.
[  538.863090]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda6 sda7 sda9

[tormath1]

Hi @mister2d and thanks for raising this issue.

Are you trying to define partitions or similar with Ignition ?
What's the version of Flatcar you're trying to boot ?

[mister2d]

Hi @tormath1

I'm attempting to install to "/dev/sda" with no partitions defined. Using Flatcar 3139.2.0.

My gut tells me that this GPT message can be ignored because sometimes provisioning works and the box restarts to finish the bootstrap. But I'm only seeing success about 2 times out of 10 tries. I wish it were a way to gain some insight.

[mister2d]

Surprisingly I'm not having this issue anymore and I don't know why. Consider this resolved (at least for now).