Robert L Cochran wrote: > 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 >
"cobbler check" will alert you of some things you need to set with regards to SELinux permissions. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
