Okay. I have a laptop here which really can PXE boot, and it has a brand new, bare 160 Gb hard drive in it. I wish to use cobbler to install Fedora 11 on it, either the i386 or the PAE-i386, whichever flavor the machine can accept.
After PXE booting successfully, I can see this blue-colored text-based screen:
Cobbler | http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
(local) Fedora11-PAE-i386 Fedora11-i386 rescue-Fedora11-PAE-i386 rescue-Fedora11-i386
Press [Tab] to edit options
And there is a white selection bar at the (local) option.
My question is, what do I do next to get a Fedora install started? If I move the white selection bar down to "Fedora11-PAE-i386" and then press the <enter> key nothing happens. If I press the <tab> key I see a long boot incantation. But pressing <enter> seems to do nothing there, too. Obviously I have missed reading documentation somewhere. Is there a wiki page that tells me how to get an actual install started?
Thanks!
Bob
On 06/30/2009 06:42 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Okay. I have a laptop here which really can PXE boot, and it has a brand new, bare 160 Gb hard drive in it. I wish to use cobbler to install Fedora 11 on it, either the i386 or the PAE-i386, whichever flavor the machine can accept.
After PXE booting successfully, I can see this blue-colored text-based screen:
Cobbler | http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
(local) Fedora11-PAE-i386 Fedora11-i386 rescue-Fedora11-PAE-i386 rescue-Fedora11-i386
Press [Tab] to edit options
And there is a white selection bar at the (local) option.
My question is, what do I do next to get a Fedora install started? If I move the white selection bar down to "Fedora11-PAE-i386" and then press the<enter> key nothing happens. If I press the<tab> key I see a long boot incantation. But pressing<enter> seems to do nothing there, too. Obviously I have missed reading documentation somewhere. Is there a wiki page that tells me how to get an actual install started?
Thanks!
Bob
I have significant new information based on checking the server machine's logs. The cobblerd server is a Fedora 11 x86_64 machine running under SELinux enforcing mode, and it looks like SELinux is unhappy about tftp. Go here
http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/cobbler_install_attempt.html
to see photos of my install attempt plus the /var/log/messages entries.
Bob
Robert L Cochran wrote:
On 06/30/2009 06:42 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Okay. I have a laptop here which really can PXE boot, and it has a brand new, bare 160 Gb hard drive in it. I wish to use cobbler to install Fedora 11 on it, either the i386 or the PAE-i386, whichever flavor the machine can accept.
After PXE booting successfully, I can see this blue-colored text-based screen:
Cobbler | http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
(local) Fedora11-PAE-i386 Fedora11-i386 rescue-Fedora11-PAE-i386 rescue-Fedora11-i386
Press [Tab] to edit options
And there is a white selection bar at the (local) option.
My question is, what do I do next to get a Fedora install started? If I move the white selection bar down to "Fedora11-PAE-i386" and then press the<enter> key nothing happens. If I press the<tab> key I see a long boot incantation. But pressing<enter> seems to do nothing there, too. Obviously I have missed reading documentation somewhere. Is there a wiki page that tells me how to get an actual install started?
Thanks!
Bob
I have significant new information based on checking the server machine's logs. The cobblerd server is a Fedora 11 x86_64 machine running under SELinux enforcing mode, and it looks like SELinux is unhappy about tftp. Go here
http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/cobbler_install_attempt.html
to see photos of my install attempt plus the /var/log/messages entries.
Bob
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"cobbler check" will alert you of some things you need to set with regards to SELinux permissions.
--Michael
"cobbler check" will alert you of some things you need to set with regards to SELinux permissions.
--Michael
Well I sincerely thought I brought this up earlier. There does seem to be an SELinux-related problem with cobbler on Fedora 11. Has anyone actually tested a cobbler-based install using Fedora 11 as the cobblerd server? From what I ran into last night, I get the impression not. I get the feeling I am testing cobblerd on Fedora 11. I suppose it works fine on Fedora 10.
Here is what 'cobbler check' tells me as regards SELinux:
#0: you need to set some SELinux content rules to ensure cobbler works correctly in your SELinux environment, run the following: /usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/tftpboot/.*"
Here is what actually happens when I run semanage as suggested (and I did this quite some time ago, early in the phase where I installed cobbler itself):
/usr/sbin/semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/tftpboot/.*" /usr/sbin/semanage: File context for /tftpboot/.* already defined
If you look at the text of the sealert I posted to the web page mentioned earlier, on http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/cobbler_install_attempt.html , you will notice it suggests running `restorecon[..]` as shown in the web page. I did run that as suggested and that helped to get me going, but it result in a fully automated installation -- I took additional photos which I have not yet posted to my website. I'll try to do that later tonight. It is very puzzling getting cobbler to work.
Thanks
Bob
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