An issue I came across was a virtual appliance stuck in a boot loop after the VMware environment lost its power.
The console output was giving off the following text prior to rebooting:
Warning: pci_mmcfg_init marking 256MB space uncacheable sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: assuming drive cache: write through Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while... Found volume group "smosvg" using metadata type lvm2 11 logical volume(s) in volume group "smosvg" now active Boot Cisco ADE-OS Version: 2.0.1.038 Restarting system.
The solution was, simply put, to boot a live linux CD and run fsck. Much like the guide found on Ciscos support forums (See link at bottom) regarding boot loop on NCS.
The live CD ISO I used was Fedora (Download here – fedoraproject.org)
Mount the ISO on your virtual appliance and boot from it.
Open up a terminal window and run the following commands
1. fdisk -l List partitions (Notice your /dev/sd***) 2. lvm vgscan -v Scan volume groups 3. lvm vgchange -a y Set all volume groups to active 4. lvm lvs –a List logical volumes 5. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/sda1 Run Fsck on your drives partitions (Your /dev/*** may be different) 6. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/sda2 7. fsck -t ext3 -y /dev/sda3 8. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-altrootvol Run Fsck on your logical volumes 9. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-home 10. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-localdiskvol 11. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-optvol 12. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-recvol 13. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-rootvol 14. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-storeddatavol 15. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-swapvol 16. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-tmpvol 17. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-usrvol 18. fsck -t ext3 –y /dev/mapper/smosvg-varvol
After successfully running these commands, and hopefully seeing fsck finding and correcting problems, issue the “reboot” command to boot up your virtual appliance.
This did in any case the trick for me.
Hope this helps,
Gos
Link to Cisco support forum: ncs-boot-loop-ade-os-vmdk-recovery – Cisco.com
THANKS !! This also worked for me!! with ADRIANE-KNOPPIX v7.2
THANK-YOU!! I’d have never found that post on the Cisco forums since it’s about NCS and I was Googling Prime Infrastructure. I successfully did the fix on Prime Infrastructure 2.2.1 using GRML which is a command-line-centric Debian-based distro meant for admin/rescue tasks.
Thanks Gos, this came through for me.
Amazing! You made my day!