Re: Option to use default PXE with known systems

[Scott Henson]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:04:44 -0500, Bradley Peterson <despite(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hello,
>  
>  I'm getting started with cobbler, and I find myself wanting to add systems
>  to DHCP, but NOT to override the default PXE menu.  I love the PXE menu -- I
>  love being able to choose from all the profiles, and having easy access to
>  rescue and memtest.  But I'm used to using static DHCP entries, and my
>  existing kickstarts depend on that.  I don't like having a system be married
>  to a single profile, and I would like to keep access to the PXE menu after
>  install.
>  
>  So, I would like to add an option to skip creating
>  /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/<mac-address> files.  For my use, that would
>  be universal, but I could also see it as a per-system or even per-interface
>  option.
>  
>  Before I hack something up for my own use, is this an option other people
>  are interested in?  Any suggestions for how to do it? 
My only thought would be to change the pxe templates in
/etc/cobbler/pxe/. Other than that I don't really know.

-- 
Scott Henson
Red Hat SOC Operator
WVU Alum BSAE/BSME