Thanks, Michael. I filed a ticket (#14) on 7 December. Joergen Mass is
also interested in this topic.
My personal view, following a brief discussion with Joergen, remains
that we ought to view this primarily from the angle of "keep it simple
and well-documented for the average end-user". We shouldn't have to
tell the user to set up new profiles or any such techno-geekery. If
such things have to happen "under the covers", then the typical user
should not need to know about it. If it /really/ is necessary for the
end-user to have to do it, then first of all we need to write accurate,
clear, unambiguous documentation, then implement what the documentation
says.
Hope that helps.
-- David Lee
Michael DeHaan wrote:
Filing a ticket in github (github.com/cobbler/cobbler) should be good
enough.
(I think reinstating the original behavior works best, at least at the
code level.)
-- Michael
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 9:24 AM, David Lee wrote:
Thanks, Michael.
This isn't urgent for us. But it is something which I think would be
very, very nice to have readily and easily available in the future.
For any established system "client1", it would be good to be able to do
something as simple as a re-enabling of the original specification:
cobbler system edit --name=client1 \
--netboot-enabled=true --rescue-mode=true
An alternative syntax might be:
cobbler system edit --name=client1 --netboot-enabled=rescue
I merely offer those two as possible suggestions; I can see good and
not-so-good in both.
The essential point is simplicity and (as Michael says) "it also
immediately exposes the capabilities to those who didn't know it was
there."
Should I raise this on "cobbler-devel"?
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Michael DeHaan wrote:
Here's an older post that should be helpful:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/et-mgmt-tools/2008-April/msg00059.html
This was actually a feature for a long while:
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/cobbler/2008-September/000773.html
This functionality has apparently been commented out in recent "cobbler
import" builds.
I'm not sure why. It could be that in making imports modular it was
just never finished, it or it could be because someone didn't like the
extra profiles cluttering up the list. I think I'd like to see it
return namely because you don't have to remember what to put in the
rescue kickstart, and it is also immediately exposes the capabilities to
those who didn't know it was there.
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/blob/master/cobbler/modules/manage_import_redhat.py
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On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 5:48 AM, David Lee wrote:
(Using cobbler 2.0.11 with RHEL 5.6.)
I may have missed the documentation on this: if so, simply point me in
the right direction!
During the last few months we have developed a cobbler installation for
installing new client systems, and are happy with it. Indeed, most of
our boxes don't have internal DVD drives, so cobbler has been essential.
But one thing we would like to be able to do occasionally is to boot a
client box into a "rescue mode". The most recent example was when we
had some suspect memory on a disk controller.
Is there some sort of recipe somewhere for running a "rescue mode" boot
of a cobbler client system?
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