OK, did a lil bit of troubleshooting on this matter. I turned off SELinux (I do not think this was a factor at all) and I tried the following versions:
cobbler-1.4.3-4.fc11.noarch.rpm cobbler-1.6.2-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
These test pxeboot tests took place on an IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T60, and all of the above versions actually worked! I can pxeboot a virtual machine on Fedora 11 preview.
the following versions did not work: (the same problem exists in these versions)
cobbler-1.6.3-1.fc11.i586 cobbler-1.6.4-1.fc11.i586
So now I know that with the latest version of cobbler, there is a strange issue there. When I rebuild my machine with fedora 11 preview, the same results happen with the latest version of cobbler. Also, I can reproduce this on an old toshiba tecra M2 laptop.
Where do I go now with my troubleshooting? I really want to use the latest version of cobbler, on Fedora 11 preview, but obviously no being able to pxeboot a vm is a big issue.
Where do I go on from here?
Lester M. wrote:
OK, did a lil bit of troubleshooting on this matter. I turned off SELinux (I do not think this was a factor at all) and I tried the following versions:
cobbler-1.4.3-4.fc11.noarch. rpm cobbler-1.6.2-1.fc11.noarch.rpm
These test pxeboot tests took place on an IBM Lenovo Thinkpad T60, and all of the above versions actually worked! I can pxeboot a virtual machine on Fedora 11 preview.
the following versions did not work: (the same problem exists in these versions)
cobbler-1.6.3-1.fc11.i586 cobbler-1.6.4-1.fc11.i586
So now I know that with the latest version of cobbler, there is a strange issue there. When I rebuild my machine with fedora 11 preview, the same results happen with the latest version of cobbler. Also, I can reproduce this on an old toshiba tecra M2 laptop.
Where do I go now with my troubleshooting? I really want to use the latest version of cobbler, on Fedora 11 preview, but obviously no being able to pxeboot a vm is a big issue.
Where do I go on from here?
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I really do not think this is a cobbler problem. The TFTP management component does not change often and is very well tested (if it's broke we would most certaintly know about it) -- so most likely what you have is a network configuration issue or setup problem of some sort. These things are generally much easier to debug over IRC than a long email thread, so I'd suggest you join #cobbler and ask there.
--Michael
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