[cobbler] Things i had to do to make esxi5.1 boot correctly

Sarakaitis, Eric Eric.Sarakaitis at CBTS.Cinbell.com
Wed Mar 6 15:40:55 UTC 2013


My default entry:

DEFAULT menu
PROMPT 0
MENU TITLE Cobbler | http://cobbler.github.com/
TIMEOUT 200
TOTALTIMEOUT 6000
ONTIMEOUT local

LABEL local
        MENU LABEL (local)
        MENU DEFAULT
        LOCALBOOT -1

LABEL Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64
        kernel /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/mboot.c32
        MENU LABEL Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64
        ipappend 2
        append -c /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/boot.cfg /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/vmkboot.gz append initrd=/images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/s.v00 ks=http://127.0.0.1/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64  lang=  text  --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/vmkernel.gz --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/sys.vgz --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/cim.vgz --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ienviron.vgz --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/install.vgz




MENU end

My boot.cfg

bootstate=0
title=Loading ESXi installer
kernel=/images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/tboot.b00
kernelopt=runweasel
modules=/images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/b.b00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/useropts.gz --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/k.b00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/chardevs.b00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/a.b00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/user.b00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/s.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ata_pata.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ata_pata.v01 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ata_pata.v02 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ata_pata.v03 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ata_pata.v04 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ata_pata.v05 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ata_pata.v06 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ata_pata.v07 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/block_cc.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ehci_ehc.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/weaselin.t00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/esx_dvfi.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/xlibs.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ima_qla4.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ipmi_ipm.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ipmi_ipm.v01 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ipmi_ipm.v02 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/misc_cni.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/misc_dri.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_be2n.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_bnx2.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_bnx2.v01 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_cnic.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_e100.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_e100.v01 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_enic.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_forc.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_igb.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_ixgb.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_nx_n.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_r816.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_r816.v01 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_s2io.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_sky2.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_tg3.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/net_vmxn.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/ohci_usb.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/sata_ahc.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/sata_ata.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/sata_sat.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/sata_sat.v01 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/sata_sat.v02 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/sata_sat.v03 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/sata_sat.v04 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_aac.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_adp.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_aic.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_bnx.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_fni.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_hps.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_ips.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_lpf.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_meg.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_meg.v01 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_meg.v02 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_mpt.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_mpt.v01 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_mpt.v02 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_qla.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_qla.v01 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/scsi_rst.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/uhci_usb.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/tools.t00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/xorg.v00 --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/imgdb.tgz --- /images/Vmware-ESXi5.1-x86_64/imgpayld.tgz
build=
updated=0




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Eric Sarakaitis
Sr. Systems Engineer
419.303.4624
eric.sarakaitis at cbts.cinbell.com<mailto:eric.sarakaitis at cbts.cinbell.com>
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