On 04/04/2012 06:39 PM, James Cammarata wrote:
Does this still happen if you use the cobbler trigger to set
netboot-enabled to false? Not sure if that's a valid option for
whatever OS you're building or not but take a look at the
kickstart_done snippet.
I'm not sure I understand entirely. I have 'pxe_just_once' set to 1 in
my /etc/cobbler/settings, and that does nicely unset the netboot enabled
flag for the systems that are net-installed. However, the problem I saw
(and I can try and test without my changes to re-confirm this) is that
the DHCP server is still configured to respond over the network when
this flag is changed (by default), so the netbooting machine gets a DHCP
response, but the netboot environment no longer exists, and we fail. But
system firmware is so dumb in this instnace that it just cycles there,
rather than failing over ...
Interesting, what it should be doing is creating a PXE file but with
the only option being to boot from local disk. Maybe that doesn't work
for ppc64 systems?
We netboot ppc64 systems every day in cobbler. They are a little
different from x86 systems in that the netboot entry *must* be deleted
since there is no localboot equivalent.
Forcing a full sync every time a system changes the netboot-enabled
flag is probably not a good solution though, as this is a very
time-consuming operation for cobbler installations with a large number
of distros/systems/profiles. Unfortunately, ISC's dhcpd doesn't have a
great CLI command option so doing dynamic updates doesn't seem to
work, unless someone can point me to some good docs on the subject.
Everything I've found says the CLI management tool is spotty at best.
Would it be possible to perhaps add a 'dhcpsync()' variant of sync that
only ensured the DHCP configuration was updated (with the above chnage
to ensure netboot disabled servers weren't listed)?
If not, I'm happy to carry the above chagne locally.
I would accept a patch for that, I could see it being useful to
regenerate the dhcp config without doing a full sync.
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