On 06/30/2009 06:42 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote: > Okay. I have a laptop here which really can PXE boot, and it has a brand > new, bare 160 Gb hard drive in it. I wish to use cobbler to install > Fedora 11 on it, either the i386 or the PAE-i386, whichever flavor the > machine can accept. > > After PXE booting successfully, I can see this blue-colored text-based > screen: > > Cobbler | http://cobbler.et.redhat.com > > (local) > Fedora11-PAE-i386 > Fedora11-i386 > rescue-Fedora11-PAE-i386 > rescue-Fedora11-i386 > > Press [Tab] to edit options > > And there is a white selection bar at the (local) option. > > My question is, what do I do next to get a Fedora install started? If I > move the white selection bar down to "Fedora11-PAE-i386" and then press > the<enter> key nothing happens. If I press the<tab> key I see a long > boot incantation. But pressing<enter> seems to do nothing there, too. > Obviously I have missed reading documentation somewhere. Is there a wiki > page that tells me how to get an actual install started? > > Thanks! > > Bob >
I have significant new information based on checking the server machine's logs. The cobblerd server is a Fedora 11 x86_64 machine running under SELinux enforcing mode, and it looks like SELinux is unhappy about tftp. Go here http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/cobbler_install_attempt.html to see photos of my install attempt plus the /var/log/messages entries. Bob _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
