On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Stuart Sears <stu...@sjsears.com> wrote: > On 24/08/12 09:18, Mark Christian wrote: >> >> I would like the append line in PXE conf to look like: >> append initrd=/images/cent5.6/initrd.img,/images/cent5.6/dd.img >> >> ...note the dd.img file is included along with the standard initrd.img >> >> I maintain certain older releases on new hardware, and being able to >> inject a NIC driver into PXE boot is helpful. I don't see an obvious way to >> accomplish this with cobbler 2.2.3. Can Cobbler sync the 2 initrd's to >> /tftpboot/images/$distro/ and template the needed PXE config? >> >> Example PXE install with 2 initrd.img: >> >> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#sect-Preparing_an_initial_RAM_disk_update-x86 > > > yes, this is possible. > I've had to do it myself - it takes a bit of fiddling/hacking though. > > bearing in mind that: > 1. cobbler doesn't support multiple initrds directly > 2. cobbler deletes everything in your tftproot on a 'sync' > > I managed this by putting the driver disk images in a different directory > under /tftpboot (or wherever your root is) and editing the pxeboot templates > in /etc/cobbler to manipulate the append lines for particular > distros/profiles etc. > These files are just templates like kickstarts and snippets so you can use > cheetah instructions to manipulate the initrd= parts.
There is an option now that copies files to your TFTP directory for you: --boot-files=BOOT_FILES And then either use kopts/ksmeta or manually edit the templates as Stuart did. The difficulty will be in the fact that you're modifying the initrd option, which is generated in the $append_line variable. You'll probably have to write some cheetah code and do some string manipulation in order to do what you want above. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
