BFO config problem causes annoying "retry" messages (with easy fix)

[Matt_Domsch at Dell.com]

Is it in fedora-web?

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO


-----Original Message-----
From: infrastructure-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:infrastructure-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Fenzi
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 10:32 AM
To: Fedora Infrastructure
Subject: Re: BFO config problem causes annoying "retry" messages (with easy fix)

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011 08:56:07 -0600
<Matt_Domsch at Dell.com> wrote:

> Is this worth changing during freeze?  I'd think so...  +1 from me.

Yeah, I would agree. +1 here too. 

I looked around for the config for this in puppet the other day and didn't see it. Is it not puppetized? 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Woods [mailto:wwoods at redhat.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 4:49 PM
> To: admin at fedoraproject.org
> Subject: BFO config problem causes annoying "retry" messages (with 
> easy fix)
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> As detailed in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656076 the 
> pxelinux config used by boot.fedoraproject.org causes annoying 
> repeated "retry" messages during BFO installs.
> 
> The problem is that bfo/pxelinux.cfg/fedora_install.conf specifies 
> 'method=http://download.fedoraproject.org/...' as a boot argument.
> This overrides the yum repo files that are used in the installer in 
> Fedora 13 and later - so we don't get to use the normal mirrorlists.
> 
> The fix is really easy. Just change
> bfo/pxelinux.cfg/fedora_install.conf as follows:
> 
> For Fedora 13 and 14, change:
>   append method=http://[...]/os/
> to:
>   append stage2=http://[...]/os/images/install.img
> 
> When you add Fedora 15 Alpha (or later), leave off the "append method"
> line altogether. (Fedora 15 has stage2 already inside the initrd.)
> 
> This won't work for Fedora 12, but oh well.
> 
> Hope this helps. Please contact me if you need any more info. 
> 
> -w
> 
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