Bret,
Yep sure does :)
Try going into Cobbler and changing the distro to be Fedora 17 (from generic) and sync (to build up the PXE stuff)...
I was having the same problem ;)
I think if you look @ whatever kickstart is generated, you'll see it gives you a line like this:
--url = $tree
So, "cobbler system getks --name [name of your system that is a F17 distro]"
From: "Bret Wortman" <bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com>
To: "cobbler mailing list" <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:23:05 AM
Subject: Re: [cobbler] How to PXE boot F17 now?
I just removed and re-imported my F17 distro and profiles from the mirror (I tried using the ISO, but couldn't get it to work). I took notes on the error that results when booting from the F17-PAE-i386 image and here's what I get:
[ 12.846909] dracut: anaconda using disk root at /dev/sr0
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[ 12.857996] dracut Warning: no suitable images
dracut Warning: no suitable images
[ 34.925756] dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue
[ 34.926450] dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist
Dropping to debug shell.
dracut:/#
Does anything there look familiar to anyone?
Bret
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Bret Wortman
<bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com> wrote:
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 (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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