[cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

Andrew Hamilton ahamilton55 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 01:16:48 UTC 2012


On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:58 PM, James Cammarata <jimi at sngx.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Andrew Hamilton <ahamilton55 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM, James Cammarata <jimi at sngx.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Zack Perry <zack.perry at sbcglobal.net>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi James,
> >> >
> >> > Thanks for your response.
> >> >
> >> > You meant what Jorgen said in
> >> >
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg08100.html?
> >> > quoted "downloading an daily cdrom image and use the kernel/initrd
> from
> >> > that."?
> >> >
> >> > So far, I have consistent success using cobbler import loop mounted
> >> > ubuntu-12.04.1-server-x86_64.iso without needing anything from the
> Ubuntu
> >> > daily cdrom image site. I will try to PXE boot 12.04.1 alternative CD
> >> > tomorrow evening. If I succeed again, I will test Fedora and RHEL.
>  Once I
> >> > am done with these, I will come back to 12.10.
> >> >
> >> >> That is a known issue with the x86_64 ISO currently available (date
> >> >> of 10/17 I believe). I think Jorgen had a workaround that he shared
> >> >> on the mailing list, beyond that it's broken on Ubuntu's end.
> >>
> >> Yes, I have only run into this issue with 12.10-amd64. The .04/.04.1
> >> images work fine, as do the .10-i386 images.
> >
> >
> > I played around with the 12.10 images today. I've been able to get past
> the
> > error that you were hitting by using the netboot kernel and ramdisk. The
> > desktop DVD also requires that you pull down the debian-intaller
> directory
> > as well.
> >
> > The installation still fails as it goes to install the system. It ends up
> > looking for a "live image" and since it's a netboot it can't find any.
> This
> > only happens when netbooting and using a mirror that is simply a rsync of
> > the DVD. If you point the installation to a full mirror such as
> > http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu the installation goes through without
> > issue. It looks like Ubuntu has changed the way that they are installing
> the
> > system no matter whether you are using a server or desktop DVD.
> >
> > I'm stumped on whether or not there is any way to continue using the
> Ubuntu
> > CDs for starting mirrors with cobbler.
>
> That's interesting, it would be nice if they would be considerate and
> push a DVD image instead that would work as expected.
>

Yeah I totally agree. It did find a set of DVDs but they only contain the
sources for the release which won't help us.

Regards,

Andrew

> _______________________________________________
> cobbler mailing list
> cobbler at lists.fedorahosted.org
> https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/attachments/20121116/53828c7f/attachment.html>


More information about the cobbler mailing list