How do I change dracut-initqueue timeout?

Question

During boot, my CentOS 7 box yields a bunch of messages like [ 202.161851] myhost dracut-initqueue[381]: Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout - starting timeout scripts and then drops me to a prompt. I wait a few minutes for my storage to finish loading and then type exit and the boot completes.

How do I change the timeout so instead of giving me a prompt after a couple minutes it actually waits for the storage to load and boots automatically? I initiate most reboots remotely and it is really annoying to have to jump on the console every time I reboot just to type exit.

Solution 1

Try to boot in rescue. If you can, then you should regenerate initramfs. For example,

dracut -f /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.img 3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64

The OS will be able to boot up normally afterwards.

Thanks TrevorH for this solution: https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=63988

Re: Change VM - 'Warning: dracut-initqueue timeout' at startup Post by TrevorH » 2017/09/08 16:08:32

All of the things you tried will not work. You need something like dracut -f /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-514.26.2.e17.x86_64.img 3.10.0-514.26.2.e17.x86_64

Solution 2

You can change this via rd.timeout option. There are several other timeouts which has been recently added, see: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/dracut.cmdline.7.html

Solution 3

when you see install CentOS screen, move the arrow up to "install CentOS 7" then press tab, It will show the parameter it is passing. remove the line until hd: and add "sr0" then press enter.

I think that will do it.

if didn't work, try to find the device name of the cdrom or USB mounted to install, Try ll /dev/disk/by-id/ you will get an idea which drive is device to append to hd: as mentioned.