I&#39;m not even getting to kickstarts -- and, in fact, I&#39;m not using them. Here are my distro and profile for the profile I&#39;ve chosen from the boot menu:<div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Name                           : F17-PAE-i386</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Architecture                   : i386</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">TFTP Boot Files                : {}</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Breed                          : redhat</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Comment                        : </font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Fetchable Files                : {}</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Initrd                         : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/F17-i386/images/pxeboot/initrd-PAE.img</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kernel                         : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/F17-i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz-PAE</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kernel Options                 : {}</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kernel Options (Post Install)  : {}</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kickstart Metadata             : {&#39;tree&#39;: &#39;http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/F17-PAE-i386&#39;}</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Management Classes             : []</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">OS Version                     : generic26</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Owners                         : [&#39;admin&#39;]</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Red Hat Management Key         : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Red Hat Management Server      : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</font></div><div>
<font face="courier new, monospace">Template Files                 : {}</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Name                           : F17-PAE-i386</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">TFTP Boot Files                : {}</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Comment                        : </font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">DHCP Tag                       : default</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Distribution                   : F17-PAE-i386</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Enable gPXE?                   : 0</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Enable PXE Menu?               : 1</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Fetchable Files                : {}</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kernel Options                 : {}</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kernel Options (Post Install)  : {}</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kickstart                      : </font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kickstart Metadata             : {}</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Management Classes             : []</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Management Parameters          : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Name Servers                   : []</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Name Servers Search Path       : []</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Owners                         : [&#39;admin&#39;]</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Parent Profile                 : </font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Proxy                          : </font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Red Hat Management Key         : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Red Hat Management Server      : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</font></div><div>
<font face="courier new, monospace">Repos                          : []</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Server Override                : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Template Files                 : {}</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Virt Auto Boot                 : 1</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Virt Bridge                    : xenbr0</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Virt CPUs                      : 1</font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Virt Disk Driver Type          : raw</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Virt File Size(GB)             : 5</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Virt Path                      : </font></div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Virt RAM (MB)                  : 512</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Virt Type                      : qemu</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Do I need to point it at the default, do-nothing kickstart for this to work?</div>
<div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Scot Floess <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sfloess@redhat.com" target="_blank">sfloess@redhat.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">Bret,<br><br>Yep sure does :)<br><br>Try going into Cobbler and changing the distro to be Fedora 17 (from generic) and sync (to build up the PXE stuff)...<br>
<br>I was having the same problem ;)<br><br>I think if you look @ whatever kickstart is generated, you&#39;ll see it gives you a line like this:<br><br>--url = $tree<br><br>So, &quot;cobbler system getks --name [name of your system that is a F17 distro]&quot;<br>
<br><br><br><hr><blockquote style="padding-left:5px;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;margin-left:5px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal;border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255)"><b>From: </b>&quot;Bret Wortman&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com" target="_blank">bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com</a>&gt;<br>
<b>To: </b>&quot;cobbler mailing list&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org" target="_blank">cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org</a>&gt;<br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:23:05 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [cobbler] How to PXE boot F17 now?<div>
<div class="h5"><br><br>I just removed and re-imported my F17 distro and profiles from the mirror (I tried using the ISO, but couldn&#39;t get it to work).  I took notes on the error that results when booting from the F17-PAE-i386 image and here&#39;s what I get:<div>

<br></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">[   12.846909] dracut: anaconda using disk root at /dev/sr0</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">mount: you must specify the filesystem type</font></div>
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<font face="courier new, monospace">[   12.857996] dracut Warning: no suitable images</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">dracut Warning: no suitable images</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br>

</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">[   34.925756] dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue</font></div><div><span style="font-family:&#39;courier new&#39;,monospace">dracut Warning: Unable to process initqueue</span></div>

<div><font face="courier new, monospace">[   34.926450] dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist</font></div><div><span style="font-family:&#39;courier new&#39;,monospace">dracut Warning: /dev/root does not exist</span></div>

<div><span style="font-family:&#39;courier new&#39;,monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:&#39;courier new&#39;,monospace">Dropping to debug shell.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:&#39;courier new&#39;,monospace"><br>

</span></div><div><span style="font-family:&#39;courier new&#39;,monospace">dracut:/#</span></div><div><br></div><div>Does anything there look familiar to anyone?</div><div><br></div><div><br>Bret</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Bret Wortman <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com" target="_blank">bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

Just for completeness, here&#39;s what I got after my cobbler import:<div><br></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"># cobbler distro report</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div>


<font face="courier new, monospace">:</font></div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Name                           : F17-PAE-i386</font></div><div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Architecture                   : i386</font></div>


<div><font face="courier new, monospace">TFTP Boot Files                : {}</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Breed                          : redhat</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Comment                        : </font></div>


<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Fetchable Files                : {}</font></div></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Initrd                         : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/F17-i386/images/pxeboot/initrd-PAE.img</font></div>


<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kernel                         : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/F17-i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz-PAE</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kernel Options                 : {&#39;repo&#39;: &#39;http://<a href="http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/i386/os/" target="_blank">http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/i386/os/</a>&#39;}</font></div>


<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kernel Options (Post Install)  : {}</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Kickstart Metadata             : {&#39;tree&#39;: &#39;http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/F17-PAE-i386&#39;}</font></div>

<div>
<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Management Classes             : []</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">OS Version                     : generic26</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Owners                         : [&#39;admin&#39;]</font></div>


<div><font face="courier new, monospace">Red Hat Management Key         : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">Red Hat Management Server      : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</font></div>

<div>
<font face="courier new, monospace">Template Files                 : {}</font></div></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace">:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><br></font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"># cobbler profile report</font></div>


<div><font face="courier new, monospace">:</font></div><div><font face="courier new, monospace"><div>Name                           : F17-PAE-i386</div><div><div>TFTP Boot Files                : {}</div><div>Comment                        : </div>


<div>DHCP Tag                       : default</div></div><div>Distribution                   : F17-PAE-i386</div><div><div><div>Enable gPXE?                   : 0</div><div>Enable PXE Menu?               : 1</div>
<div>Fetchable Files                : {}</div>
<div>Kernel Options                 : {}</div><div>Kernel Options (Post Install)  : {}</div><div>Kickstart                      : </div><div>Kickstart Metadata             : {}</div><div>Management Classes             : []</div>


<div>Management Parameters          : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</div><div>Name Servers                   : []</div><div>Name Servers Search Path       : []</div><div>Owners                         : [&#39;admin&#39;]</div>

<div>
Parent Profile                 : </div><div>Proxy                          : </div><div>Red Hat Management Key         : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</div><div>Red Hat Management Server      : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</div><div>


Repos                          : []</div><div>Server Override                : &lt;&lt;inherit&gt;&gt;</div><div>Template Files                 : {}</div><div>Virt Auto Boot                 : 1</div><div>Virt Bridge                    : xenbr0</div>


<div>Virt CPUs                      : 1</div><div>Virt Disk Driver Type          : raw</div><div>Virt File Size(GB)             : 5</div><div>Virt Path                      : </div><div>Virt RAM (MB)                  : 512</div>


<div>Virt Type                      : qemu</div></div></div><div>:</div></font></div><div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t use kickstart yet, mostly because each system I set up ends up being so customized that I haven&#39;t figured out a way to leverage kickstart well. That&#39;s why those sections are completely empty.</div>

<span><font color="#888888">
<div><br></div><div><br>Bret</div></font></span><div><div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Scot Floess <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sfloess@redhat.com" target="_blank">sfloess@redhat.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-size:12pt;font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif">I had no issue PXE booting F17 using either i386 or x86_64...<br>


<br>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...<br><br>


<hr><blockquote style="padding-left:5px;font-size:12pt;font-style:normal;margin-left:5px;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal;border-left:2px solid rgb(16,16,255)"><b>From: </b>&quot;Bret Wortman&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com" target="_blank">bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com</a>&gt;<br>


<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org" target="_blank">cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, August 15, 2012 8:37:42 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[cobbler] How to PXE boot F17 now?<div>


<div><br><br>Has anyone figured out how to PXE boot F17 from Cobbler now? Specifically, I&#39;m trying to figure out how to specify the &quot;inst.repo=&quot; line now that it&#39;s required.<div><br></div><div>
I tried adding it via --kopts, but that hasn&#39;t appeared to work. I&#39;ll keep experimenting, but was wondering if anyone had solved this already.</div>
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