On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Scot Floess sfloess@redhat.com wrote:
Michael,
Hey welcome back! And thanks for the response :)
I am going to ask a really silly question. When you say add the mac - do you mean via cobbler system add ? And if so, when I PXE boot, it'll see that entry and install OK?
cobbler system [add|edit] --name=foo --mac=AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF -netboot-enabled=1 [...]
If the system is set in BIOS to PXE first in the boot order, it will reinstall at next boot and then toggle the netboot enabled flag post installation such that it will not reinstall until netboot-enabled=1 is set again. This requires pxe_just_once to be set in settings.
If the system is NOT set to PXE first in the boot order, you'll have to hit F11 or whatever your BIOS requires to pick the boot device.
PXE to a direct system record can technically work via IP instead of MAC but that is not recommended for what should be obvious reasons -- IPs can change easily for various reasons and you don't want arbitrary systems getting reinstalled.
In any event, no need for menus. It would get unmanageable with large system counts (scroooooollll.....), and I'd really want to encourage everyone using profiles as much as possible, with systems as just the "glue" to make a system "be" a profile, plus whatever bare minimum info about it's power management or special kernel options, etc.
--Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael DeHaan" michael.dehaan@gmail.com To: "cobbler mailing list" cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Cc: "cobbler mailing list" cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 3:16:43 PM Subject: Re: PXE Booting systems
Add the MAC or IP of the system, the menu entry is unneccessary and then you can also do useful things like reinstall the box on next boot, without any manual selection from a console.
-- Michael
On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Scot Floess sfloess@redhat.com wrote:
Yup, How would I include "external" pxeboot options such as a couple OpenBSD flavours* - currently I maintain two TFTP instances and manually launch the one I need at the time - I think I'm looking for an 'include' function that survives the cobbler sync to chain in the OBSD pxe options. Or help with the cobbler config option I'm missing. thx
It would be nice if I could spell out which systems I want in the menu - similarly to what one can do to build an iso. I'm very new to PXE booting (well setting it up anyway) - but if I understand you correctly there are options you hand need to hand in? If so, how do you do that now via Cobbler? Or do you manually edit the default file?
*I'm not worried about scripted installs here, just picking the right pxe boot file just FYI http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE
See my issue is, I was doing an install - then running KOAN against the install machine...I just wanted to not do that (aka save a step and one less install)...
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