"Right you can change the bootiso template but the ontimeout value needs to match the System or Profile name your requesting,"
If you know what it's going to timeout to, you should just set the IP/MAC so it boots directly and not use the menu, otherwise you won't know what you are supposed to default to anyway. -- Michael On Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Simon Woolsgrove wrote: > > > Right you can change the bootiso template but the ontimeout value needs to > match the System or Profile name your requesting, in this use case its always > a system since were creating single system iso's passing the ip details on > the boot line, call it a very poor replacement for dhcp. We can not use the > same default name over and over, the buildiso template does not support > replacing variables that I am aware? like say in the pxe template but it > should not be too much to add this. > > > Cheers, > Simon > > > On Fri 30/12/11 4:25 PM , Michael DeHaan <michael.deh...@gmail.com > (mailto:michael.deh...@gmail.com)> wrote: > > > Ah, you said ontimeout? Try editing the templates in /etc/cobbler… the > > "local" part is in that template, not the cobbler source, so you can change > > it. > > > > -- Michael > > > > On Friday, December 30, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: This > > feature already exists. Create a system named "default": > > cobbler system add --name=default --profile=foo > > PXE also works by IP, so it at least used to work that you could create a > > system ip in CIDR notation to get the same thing for just a part of your > > network: > > cobbler system add --name=thisNetworkHasADefault --ip=255.255.255.0/16 > > --profile=foo > > The latter may o > > --Michael > > > > -- Michael > > > > On Friday, December 30, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Jörgen Maas wrote: On Fri, Dec > > 30, 2011 at 1:10 PM, wrote: > > > > Have a use case that maybe unique to us as were not unfortunately using > > DHCPor all our vlans. We automate on demand VMware guests by using a > > workflowengine to; create the guest images, cobbler system record, request > > cobblerbuildiso, attach iso and boot guest, detach iso. Our issue is then > > that on the isolinux timeout the default boot is Local which is fine for > > 99% ofcases but not this as the guest build fails. Currently we have > > another stepto mangle the cd athough it occurs the better solution maybe to > > add anotheroption say ontimeout so that can be supplied via api/cli (not > > sure it makessense in the webui)? > > Hi Simon, so you want to be able to control the value of the ONTIMEOUT. So > > that you can select a system to install without any further intervention? > > -- Grtz,Jörgen > > Maas_______________________________________________cobbler-devel mailing > > listcobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.orghttps > > (mailto:listcobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.orghttps)://fedorahosted.org/mailman/li > > (http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/li) > > stinfo/cobbler-devel[1] > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cobbler-devel mailing list > > cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > > (mailto:cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org) > > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel [2] > > > > > > > > Links: > > ------ > > [1] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel > > [2] > > http://woolsgrove.com/parse.php?redirect=https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/l > > istinfo/cobbler-devel > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler-devel mailing list > cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org > (mailto:cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org) > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel > >
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