11:54 a.m.
Well, crud. That didn't change anything. Same result.
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Bret Wortman <bret.wortman(a)damascusgrp.com
wrote:
> Aha. I see what you're saying now. I'll make a change and try again.
> Thanks for your patient assistance, Scot.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Scot Floess <sfloess(a)redhat.com wrote:
>
>> Bret,
>>
>> I'm not sure about that... I do know, I had to change my OS version to
>> be Fedora 17 (in your case the i386 version). I think the problem is,
>> generic26 isn't pointing to a distro you can import (I believe that
>> anyway)...
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>> *From: *"Bret Wortman" <bret.wortman(a)damascusgrp.com>
>> *To: *"cobbler mailing list" <cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org>
>> *Sent: *Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:33:57 AM
>>
>> *Subject: *Re: [cobbler] How to PXE boot F17 now?
>>
>> I'm not even getting to kickstarts -- and, in fact, I'm not using them.
>> Here are my distro and profile for the profile I've chosen from the boot
>> menu:
>>
>> 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 : {}
>> 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 : {}
>>
>> 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
>>
>> Do I need to point it at the default, do-nothing kickstart for this to
>> work?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Scot Floess <sfloess(a)redhat.com wrote:
>>
>>> 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(a)damascusgrp.com>
>>> *To: *"cobbler mailing list"
<cobbler(a)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(a)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 : {'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(a)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(a)damascusgrp.com>
>>>>> *To: *cobbler(a)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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