On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Greg Swift <gregsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Dan Rao <dhana...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I upgraded my Cobbler install to 2.2.3-1.el6 (from epel-testing) last >> night. >> >> Interestingly, when I run cobbler sync, only machines that have netboot >> enabled get entries in my dhcpd.conf. >> >> The offending line(s) appear to be in >> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/manage_isc.py - lines >> 164-165 >> >> ---- >> if not interface["netboot_enabled"]: >> continue >> ---- >> >> (This is in the section that generates the ISC dhcpd config file). >> >> >> I commented those lines out to get my server back, but I was curious as >> to why that was there in the first place. >> >> Any insight would be appreciated! > > It appears that this was added to prevent ppc64 reboot loops. > https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/commit/bc76631ea158c76b1cdc8d3af28c9dcb35e17bcf > > I know that we had the potential for reboot loops even on regular x86 > hardware, but we dealt with it without code change. Our systems boot > harddrive then netboot. So on initial install they netboot, once > there is an OS they regular boot. If you need to re-install you > either use koan or function key to select network boot at boot time. > > That being said, our systems also turn static post-install, so this > change would not affect us. However, if we ran off DHCP period we > would have the same issue you are experiencing with this. > > Maybe the better check would be: > > if not interface["netboot_enabled"] and interface['static']: > continue > > ?
also, might be good to file it as a bug on github? _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
