Hi Dan, responses below...
On 13/01/12 21:20, Dan White wrote: [...] > It asks me to pick the NIC to run from. These servers have 4 built-in > ethernet ports. I found that a bit surprising as I defined only one > port (eth0) in the cobbler system. I would hope it would take that > and run with it. Had I defined more than one, I could understand the > query. You need a --ksdevice=eth0 argument to the kernel add it to your 'kernel-options' for the system record. Cobbler doesn't actually do the installation, it just creates a kickstart file, which is processed by anaconda. Anaconda has no idea which of the 4 devices you have you would like to install through. This has been an 'interesting' point of discussion for a long time now, as I recall. > After that, the kickstart ran as expected, up to and including the > reboot. > > During reboot, I removed the USB thumb, expecting its job finished. > When the machine comes back up, it fails to load the operating > system. I did not record the exact screen messages, but it indicated > (to me) a corrupted OS load. > > I found a cause for this, but not a solution: The contents of the > USB flash drive had been overwritten during the OS installation > process ! I have write-protectable USB flash drives from > RiData/RiTek (product name: Twister), but did not have one handy to > try. > > The ISO I put onto this USB thumb (at least twice) totally failed to > load my server as expected. Does it boot with the usb key in afterwards? (see my bootloader comment below) > On a happy note, the same ISO burned onto a CD-ROM and re-attempted > with a CD drive ran like a champ. I do not have the luxury to do a > lot of pounding on this, but I will try it once more with a > write-protectable USB flash drive to see what happens. This is a kickstart default, not a cobbler problem. check the rendered kickstart for a line like this: clearpart --all This is probably what is doing that. It may well be installing the bootloader on the usb stick for all I know. If you know the names of the internal disks then you can put clearpart --all --drives=sda (for example) Alternatively anaconda/kickstart has an 'ignoredisk' option you can use to avoid this. ignoredisk --onlyuse sda (or possibly /dev/sda. Can't remember right now) > At this point, I'd advise folks to waste the CD's than fuss with a > USB thumb. > > I have an alternate workflow to suggest for this, but I will post it > separately > > Finally, would you consider this a "bug" ? If so, I will report it > that way as well. No. not in cobbler at any rate. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCA etc. "It's today!" said Piglet. "My favourite day," said Pooh. _______________________________________________ cobbler-devel mailing list cobbler-devel@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel
