Just for completeness, here's what I got after my cobbler import:

# cobbler distro report

:
Name                           : F17-PAE-i386
Architecture                   : i386
TFTP Boot Files                : {}
Breed                          : redhat
Comment                        : 
Fetchable Files                : {}
Initrd                         : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/F17-i386/images/pxeboot/initrd-PAE.img
Kernel                         : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/F17-i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz-PAE
Kernel Options                 : {'repo': 'http://http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/i386/os/'}
Kernel Options (Post Install)  : {}
Kickstart Metadata             : {'tree': 'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/F17-PAE-i386'}
Management Classes             : []
OS Version                     : generic26
Owners                         : ['admin']
Red Hat Management Key         : <<inherit>>
Red Hat Management Server      : <<inherit>>
Template Files                 : {}
:

# cobbler profile report
:
Name                           : F17-PAE-i386
TFTP Boot Files                : {}
Comment                        : 
DHCP Tag                       : default
Distribution                   : F17-PAE-i386
Enable gPXE?                   : 0
Enable PXE Menu?               : 1
Fetchable Files                : {}
Kernel Options                 : {}
Kernel Options (Post Install)  : {}
Kickstart                      : 
Kickstart Metadata             : {}
Management Classes             : []
Management Parameters          : <<inherit>>
Name Servers                   : []
Name Servers Search Path       : []
Owners                         : ['admin']
Parent Profile                 : 
Proxy                          : 
Red Hat Management Key         : <<inherit>>
Red Hat Management Server      : <<inherit>>
Repos                          : []
Server Override                : <<inherit>>
Template Files                 : {}
Virt Auto Boot                 : 1
Virt Bridge                    : xenbr0
Virt CPUs                      : 1
Virt Disk Driver Type          : raw
Virt File Size(GB)             : 5
Virt Path                      : 
Virt RAM (MB)                  : 512
Virt Type                      : qemu
:

I don't use kickstart yet, mostly because each system I set up ends up being so customized that I haven't figured out a way to leverage kickstart well. That's why those sections are completely empty.


Bret

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Scot Floess <sfloess@redhat.com> wrote:
I had no issue PXE booting F17 using either i386 or x86_64...

Does it start the install or is there some other issue?  I did have problems in the the --url=$tree was coming up wrong and my install failed (I had to tell Cobbler it was Fedora 17).  But it all works for me...


From: "Bret Wortman" <bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com>
To: cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 8:37:42 AM
Subject: [cobbler] How to PXE boot F17 now?


Has anyone figured out how to PXE boot F17 from Cobbler now? Specifically, I'm trying to figure out how to specify the "inst.repo=" line now that it's required.

I tried adding it via --kopts, but that hasn't appeared to work. I'll keep experimenting, but was wondering if anyone had solved this already.


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