I'm getting a kernel panic error in a CentOS instance of Google Compute Engine. I'm able to see the error and already figure out how to solve it, but I can't get into the GRUB menu trough the serial console.
dracut: Mounted root filesystem /dev/sda1
dracut: Loading SELinux policy
type=1404 audit(1479929075.614:2): enforcing=1 old_enforcing=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295
dracut: SELinux: Could not open policy file <= /etc/selinux/targeted/policy/policy.24: No such file or directory
/sbin/load_policy: Can't load policy and enforcing mode requested: No such file or directory
dracut Warning: Initial SELinux policy load failed.
dracut FATAL: Initial SELinux policy load failed. Machine in enforcing mode. To disable selinux, add selinux=0 t
o the kernel command line.
dracut Warning:
dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this issue add "rdshell" to the kernel command line.
dracut Warning: Signal caught!
dracut Warning: Boot has failed. To debug this issue add "rdshell" to the kernel command line.
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.32-642.11.1.el6.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff815482b1>] ? panic+0xa7/0x179
[<ffffffff8112aea0>] ? perf_event_exit_task+0xc0/0x340
[<ffffffff81081f97>] ? do_exit+0x867/0x870
[<ffffffff8119b735>] ? fput+0x25/0x30
[<ffffffff81081ff8>] ? do_group_exit+0x58/0xd0
[<ffffffff81082087>] ? sys_exit_group+0x17/0x20
[<ffffffff8100b0d2>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
The CentOS version is 6.7 and this happened after a yum update. I'm just trying to get into GRUBs menu to append "selinux=0" to boot into Permissive mode, but it seems that it's not possible through the serial console. I would appreciate any help.
Best Answer
I've made a work around and got my instance running again. The basic problem is that, by default, linux instances on Google Cloud are set to zero timeout at GRUBs menu . So, you cannot access the menu, even through the serial console. I will describe the steps I made to restore my instance.
<mount point>/etc/grub.conf
as follow:If you already have another linux instance running on your gcloud you don't need to create a new instance, just use VM you have.