Happy ending with a Homer Simpson "D-oh!" and a smack of the heel of the hand to the forehead.
In copying previous system definitions to make new ones, the netmask and nameserver info got dropped. The resulting boot options on the buildISO disc contained "dns=<blank space>" A co-worker discovered this by interrupting the Grub menu screen and bringing up the options line. By removing that, the installation was able to proceed. Once I knew what was causing the problem, the dropped dns/netmask info popped right out.
Thanks, Zack, for responding and offering helpful suggestions.
It all comes down to a bit of PEBCAK :P
On Dec 4, 2012, at 2:48 PM, Dan White wrote:
I am in an environment where I cannot control DHCP, so I have gone to using Cobbler buildISO's to boot new installs.
Today, for no reason I can locate, the process stops on a screen saying it cannot load the kickstart file. The given URL is valid and contains a proper, cobbler-generated kickstart.
I checked firewalls, restarted apache, restarted cobblerd, did a "cobbler sync" and still the same roadblock.
What am I missing, please ? This worked yesterday, but not today.
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