Tom Brown wrote:
> (1) Presently kernel options in cobbler are a hash and do not
preserve
> order.
> (2) ks location shouldn't be set if the kickstart is blank. You've
> probably set it so there is a kickstart file installed.
>
>
ok thanks - it was taking the default.ks as that was set in the global
settings
> (3) text and other parameters are set by /etc/cobbler/settings so you
> can not have those added by default
>
>
i see yes thanks
> (4) your usage of answerfile seems to imply this would be best treated
> as another cobbler breed, though we don't want
> to that just for XenEnt really
>
>
ok thanks - yes i guess it is a 'breed' thing as the answerfile is the
same idea as the kickstart however its not quite the same
> ====
>
> This would seem to defeat the "overriding kernel arguments" features of
> cobbler if we stored them as something
> other than a hash and we haven't had a need for this before now really.
>
> Is this a problem with the multiple console lines being out of order or
> something else?
>
>
>
the problem is that a) the order matters it seems b) the ---'s are being
appended so to form ---=None which is wrong and also i need to be able
to add a distro without initrd= as there is not one with XenEnterprise,
the start of the kernel line should look like
append Xen-Enterprise-5.0.0/xen.gz
and not
append initrd=/images/Xen-Enterprise-5.0.0/xen.gz
I think it's more likely that they just don't use the parameter
"initrd=".
Anyway, we could add a new breed for it, but I am not inclined to do it
for a proprietary Linux distribution.
Sorry!
I believe things like "---" should work fine, for instance you can set
noapic easily which has no value. Perhaps you have
the literal string None in there as the value.
--Michael