I do not believe PXE will work without DHCP.
It is the DHCP server that points the new machine to the boot server.
BuildISO's do not need DHCP.
You can make ONE image with IP's and MAC's for all 12 blades, but I do not know if
you can use it on more than one at a time.
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is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
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From: "Scot Floess" <sfloess(a)redhat.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:31:11 PM
Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile
Sam,
No that's fine - but are you serving up the tftp stuff correctly? Not sure this will
work without that...
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From: "Sam Sen" <ssen(a)ariasystems.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:28:03 PM
Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile
I don’t have the luxury of running DHCP (don’t ask).
Regards,
Sam
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[mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Scot Floess
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:27 PM
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I don't have any experience with bonding interfaces (so can't guess if there's
an issue there)...
Let me ask a really dumb question - are you able to PXE boot other machines now? Not the
blades - but any of your other machines on your network?
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From: "Sam Sen" < ssen(a)ariasystems.com >
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:22:43 PM
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Good catch, I did catch that prior to my initial post and tried again with “—mac” but it
still doesn’t work.
Regards,
Sam
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mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org ] On Behalf Of Scot Floess
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:21 PM
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Sorry - I really didn't read closely...
I did look at the thread...I notice you have -mac vs --mac in your example...
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From: "Sam Sen" < ssen(a)ariasystems.com >
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:14:37 PM
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Yep, that’s what I did. I tried that along with setting the name to the MAC Address of
eth0.
I should test this w/o the bonding interface set up. See my first post of the command I
used to add the system.
Regards,
Sam
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mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org ] On Behalf Of Scot Floess
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:13 PM
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My apologies as I am walking into this late...but...
If you know the mac addresses of each blade, you can add that system with --mac="some
mac address" and each one when it PXE boots, Cobbler will do the right thing...
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From: "Sam Sen" < ssen(a)ariasystems.com >
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:10:09 PM
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Yes, I mount them via a virtual dvd.
I really don’t want to have 12 different ISOs. It would be easier to just select the
system name from the cobbler menu.
Regards,
Sam
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mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org ] On Behalf Of Dan White
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:09 PM
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Does each blade have its own optical drive ?
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is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
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From: "Sam Sen" < ssen(a)ariasystems.com >
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:49:12 PM
Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile
Hmmmm … so if I have 12 blades to build, is there a quicker way to do this? I would like
to boot from ISO (the same ISO for all 12 systems) and have cobbler take over. I don’t
think this will work without PXE based on what you’re telling me.
Regards,
Sam
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mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org ] On Behalf Of Dan White
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:45 PM
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The default behavior of the ISO is to boot from local media after a delay
Look at a file : <iso root>/isolinux/isolinux.cfg
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is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
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From: "Sam Sen" < ssen(a)ariasystems.com >
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:36:07 PM
Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile When the system boots up and loads
the ISO, I thought it would automatically force the system to load a profile. In theory
since there is no OS installed, it will start the OS installation without having you
select from the cobbler menu. Is this feature not available for non-pxe boot? Dan White
< ygor(a)comcast.net > wrote:
So what is happening that should not happen ?
Contrarywise, what is not happening that should ?
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is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
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From: "Sam Sen" < ssen(a)ariasystems.com >
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:22:47 PM
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It’s there …
[root@phl-00-cobbler iso]# cobbler profile list
ORACLE
Regards,
Sam
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mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org ] On Behalf Of Dan White
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile
What does the command "cobbler profile list" return ?
If one of the lines is not "ORACLE", then that is your first problem.
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is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
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From: "Sam Sen" < ssen(a)ariasystems.com >
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Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:06:56 PM
Subject: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile
Not sure what I’m missing but I’m attempting to automatically install the OS with our new
blade systems using a cobbler iso (generated by buildiso). The cobbler menu shows up with
the list of available systems, but I want it to automatically install when it loads the
ISO. I don’t have DHCP hence the use of the buildiso command.
I added a new system by running the following command. Please note, the install works fine
when I select the system but that’s not what I want. Notice I have the “mac” specified and
I went as far as using the mac address of eth0 as the name for the system. Both times, I’m
greeted with the menu and I’m forced to choose.
cobbler system add --name=blade1 –mac=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX --profile=ORACLE --interface=bond0
--interface-type=bond --bonding-opts="mode=6 miimon=1000"
--ip-address=172.31.20.45 --hostname=blade1.domain.com --ksmeta='server_type=DB
disk_layout=BLADES_ORACLE' --subnet=255.255.255.0 --gateway=172.31.20.250
--kopts='ksdevice=eth0 ip=172.31.20.45 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=172.31.10.220
gateway=172.31.20.250' --static=1
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