They act on two different levels. The ipmi chassis bootdev pxe command really sets the device that the BIOS probes for booting. That way you don't need to set your machine boot order to prefer network boots permanently in BIOS, but can leave the default and change it ad-hoc. We also use this (but trigger it manually).
Greetings Andre ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ----- > > On 12.08.2014 [14:36:50 -0400], Jennifer Patrick wrote: > >> Hiya. > >> > >> Just wondering if anyone has figured out a way via the API, or how > >> to > >> show-horn it into the web-interface, to enable cobbler to set a > >> pxe boot > >> flag on a system. Currently in cobbler we can do the equivalent > >> of: > > May I ask why this is preferred instead of using the "PXE Once" > option > for the system? > > Not questioning your logic, just trying to learn. > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > -- André Gemünd Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing andre.gemu...@scai.fraunhofer.de Tel: +49 2241 14-2193 /C=DE/O=Fraunhofer/OU=SCAI/OU=People/CN=Andre Gemuend _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
