[PCA 2.x] Compute Node Bootup Fails with Internal USB/SSM Disk after Reprovision (Doc ID 2453557.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 12, 2025

Applies to:

Symptoms

Reprovisoin compute node, the OS was installed correctly without any issue, but bootup gets stuck in loop rebooting.

From rescue mode we can see the OS on this compute node has been installed on X5-2 server's internal USB disk(8GB), but it should be installed on the local 50GB RAID disk.

# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name

7 0 144496 loop0
8 0 7823360 sda >>>> Internal USB/SSM disk
8 1 512000 sda1
8 2 5482496 sda2
8 3 1826816 sda3
8 16 52428800 sdb >>>> local RAID disk

Cause

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