PowerEdge: Linux OS Failed to Boot and Powered while Booting

Summary: Linux Operating System failed to boot and automatically power off while booting.

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Symptoms

Note: The symptom is that the Linux OS automatically power off instead of auto rebooting while booting up.

Cause

The audit daemon checks all the drives mounted, and if any drive is full, the audit daemon powers off the server.

This is working as design.

Resolution

Boot into ramdisk mode and verify each drive utilization. Release space if any drive is full.

 

  1. Boot into ramdisk mode with "rd.break"
    • Press "e" for edit when showing GRUB menu and append "rd.break" to the line starting with linux.
    • Press ctrl+x to boot after editing.
    • Booted into ramdisk mode 
      # mount -o remount,rw /sysroot/
# mount --rbind /proc /sysroot/proc
# mount --rbind /sys /sysroot/sys
# mount --rbind /dev /sysroot/dev
# mount --rbind /run /sysroot/run
# chroot /sysroot
# mount -a
# df -h
  2. With the output of "df," you see which drive is full. Release space from the drive by moving the data to other drive or delete the data unwantedly.
  3. If SELinux is enabled, touch the following file to instruct the OS to relabel all files with the changed. 
    # touch /.autorelabel
  4. Exit the Chroot and reboot with the command "exit." It might take a few minutes if you must relabel for SELinux.

Affected Products

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12, OEMR R240, OEMR R250, OEMR R260, OEMR R340, OEMR R350, OEMR R360, OEMR R440, OEMR R450, OEMR R540, OEMR R550, OEMR R5500, OEMR R640, OEMR R6415, OEMR R650, OEMR R650xs, OEMR R6515, OEMR R6525, OEMR R660, OEMR R660xs , OEMR R6615, OEMR R6625, OEMR R740, OEMR R740xd, OEMR R740xd2, OEMR R7415, OEMR R7425, OEMR R750, OEMR R750xa, OEMR R750xs, OEMR R7515, OEMR R7525, OEMR R760, OEMR R760xa, OEMR R760XD2, OEMR R760xs, OEMR R7615, OEMR R7625, OEMR R840, OEMR R860, OEMR R940, OEMR R940xa, OEMR R960, OEMR XR4510c, OEMR XR4520c, OEMR XR5610, PowerEdge R240, PowerEdge R250, PowerEdge R260, PowerEdge R340, PowerEdge R350, PowerEdge R360, PowerEdge R440, PowerEdge R450, PowerEdge R540, PowerEdge R550, PowerEdge R640, PowerEdge R6415, PowerEdge R650, PowerEdge R650xs, PowerEdge R6515, PowerEdge R6525, PowerEdge R660, PowerEdge R660xs, PowerEdge R6615, PowerEdge R6625, PowerEdge R740, PowerEdge R740XD, PowerEdge R740XD2, PowerEdge R7415, PowerEdge R7425, PowerEdge R750, PowerEdge R750XA, PowerEdge R750xs, PowerEdge R7515, PowerEdge R7525, PowerEdge R760, PowerEdge R760XA, PowerEdge R760xd2, PowerEdge R760xs, PowerEdge R7615, PowerEdge R7625, PowerEdge R840, PowerEdge R860, PowerEdge R940, PowerEdge R940xa, PowerEdge R960, PowerEdge XR4510c, PowerEdge XR4520c, PowerEdge XR5610, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Version 8, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15, Ubuntu Server LTS ...
Article Properties
Article Number: 000201633
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 02 Sep 2025
Version:  2
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