On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 05:28:16PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote: > Axel Thimm wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:20:04PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote: > > > >> When pxe_just_once is enabled, Cobbler is smart enough to remove the > >> per-mac-address PXE config file of a system once it is installed to > >> prevent infinite PXE boot loops. > >> > >> Currently Cobbler does this by removing the TFTP config file for that > >> particular MAC address, falling back to whatever is the default. But > >> what happens if your default system is configured, as in something like > >> this: > >> > >> cobbler system add --name=default --profile=default-profile OR > >> cobbler system add --name=192.168.0.0./24 > >> --profile=default-profile-for-network > >> > >> You'd reinstall that system. > >> > >> It's been suggested that a better behavior for this is to change the > >> template the system uses and save it instead as a PXE config that > >> explicitly local boots the system. > >> > >> I can't see this breaks anyone but I figured it would be important > >> enough to mention here. (If it does, let me know, and we can talk > >> about making a config option, otherwise I'm not going to worry about it). > >> > > > > Will it be possible to have the memtest/rescue etc. profiles still > > available in that template? > > If you disable netboot via the above means it will local boot, so no. > If you wanted to boot those you would instead do: > > cobbler system edit --name=foo --profile=name_of_rescue_profile > > or > > cobbler system edit --name=foo --image=name_of_memtest_image > > which would tell those systems, yes, you should PXE boot something, but > PXE boot this instead of an installation image. > > Hopefully that answers the question and satisifies your use case?
The old setup would allow local admins to do some fast diagnosis w/o having to change cobbler parameters. It would be nice if this could still be the case by maybe reusing the same template as before but defaulting to localboot. Thanks! -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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