Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2013-05-09 Thread James Cammarata
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Harry Hoffman wrote: > I thought I added that to the wiki a while ago? > > On 05/09/2013 01:55 PM, James Cammarata wrote: > > Just getting back to this, due to some testing with Ubuntu 13.04. Digging > > through the errors shown in the ALT+F4 window, I finally found

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2013-05-09 Thread Harry Hoffman
I thought I added that to the wiki a while ago? On 05/09/2013 01:55 PM, James Cammarata wrote: > Just getting back to this, due to some testing with Ubuntu 13.04. Digging > through the errors shown in the ALT+F4 window, I finally found a launchpad > bug that pointed me towards this option (formatt

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2013-05-09 Thread James Cammarata
Just getting back to this, due to some testing with Ubuntu 13.04. Digging through the errors shown in the ALT+F4 window, I finally found a launchpad bug that pointed me towards this option (formatted for use in cobbler's sample.seed): d-i live-installer/net-image string http:// $http_server/cobble

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-18 Thread Andrew Hamilton
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Zack Perry wrote: > > > You might want to check the dists folder and make sure that you > > > have a "universe" folder in there so that it is able to get > > > package listings. > > In my case, the loop mounted lubuntu-12.10-alternate-amd64.iso does show > such dir

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-18 Thread Zack Perry
More positive results 8-) [...] > > Regarding the desktop issue, if I can't get it installed > using regular preseed, I have the following two approaches > that should work: > > 0. Use the d-i preseed/late_command, perhaps writing a new snippet > 1. Replace the /etc/apt/sources.list with a copy

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-18 Thread Zack Perry
> > You might want to check the dists folder and make sure that you > > have a "universe" folder in there so that it is able to get > > package listings. In my case, the loop mounted lubuntu-12.10-alternate-amd64.iso does show such directories: [root@cobbler quantal]# pwd /mnt/dists/quantal [ro

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-18 Thread James Cammarata
> You might want to check the dists folder and make sure that you have a > "universe" folder in there so that it is able to get package listings. > > I played with this a bit this weekend as well. I ended up getting a minimal > mirror of the Ubuntu packages needed setup but it requires a bit of wor

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-18 Thread Andrew Hamilton
Hi, On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Zack Perry wrote: > Hi James and Andrew, > > [...] > > Gentlemen, please give me a few days. I still have a couple > > of ideas to try out before we give up on Ubuntu 12.10 and later > > completely. [...] Will report back to the list. > [...] > > I got some p

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-18 Thread Zack Perry
Hi James and Andrew, [...] > Gentlemen, please give me a few days. I still have a couple > of ideas to try out before we give up on Ubuntu 12.10 and later > completely. [...] Will report back to the list. [...] I got some progress in PXE booting Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64, but still having an issue wit

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-16 Thread Zack Perry
Hi James and Andrew, Thanks for your two's follow-up. Looks like it's probably a good idea to file a bug report upstream to Ubuntu to Debian's Installation Team? Personally, I think what Ubuntu has done qualifies as a "bug". > I played around with the 12.10 images today. I've been able to > g

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-16 Thread Andrew Hamilton
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:58 PM, James Cammarata wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Andrew Hamilton > wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM, James Cammarata wrote: > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Zack Perry > >> wrote: > >> > Hi James, > >> > > >> > Thanks for your resp

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-16 Thread James Cammarata
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Andrew Hamilton wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM, James Cammarata wrote: >> >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Zack Perry >> wrote: >> > Hi James, >> > >> > Thanks for your response. >> > >> > You meant what Jorgen said in >> > http://www.mail-archive.c

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-16 Thread Andrew Hamilton
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:15 PM, James Cammarata wrote: > On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Zack Perry > wrote: > > Hi James, > > > > Thanks for your response. > > > > You meant what Jorgen said in > http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg08100.html? > quoted "downloading

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-15 Thread James Cammarata
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Zack Perry wrote: > Hi James, > > Thanks for your response. > > You meant what Jorgen said in > http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg08100.html? > quoted "downloading an daily cdrom image and use the kernel/initrd from > that."? > > So f

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-15 Thread Zack Perry
Hi James, Thanks for your response. You meant what Jorgen said in http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg08100.html? quoted "downloading an daily cdrom image and use the kernel/initrd from that."? So far, I have consistent success using cobbler import loop mounted ubunt

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-15 Thread James Cammarata
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Zack Perry wrote: > My cobbler 2.4.0 test install of Ubuntu 12.10 desktop x86_64 and server > x86_64 both failed at "Install the system step". > > For desktop: the complain is a corrupted Packages.gz. The complain > persisted even after I mounted the original iso

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-15 Thread Zack Perry
My cobbler 2.4.0 test install of Ubuntu 12.10 desktop x86_64 and server x86_64 both failed at "Install the system step". For desktop: the complain is a corrupted Packages.gz.  The complain persisted even after I mounted the original iso, and copied the Packages.gz to the /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirr

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-15 Thread Zack Perry
Hi Andrew and James, Found it: http://packages.ubuntu.com/quantal/all/cobbler/filelist /usr/bin/cobbler-ubuntu-import I will read the source and see what it does.  James, do you think that we need to open an issue about this?   Regards, -- Zack ___ cobb

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-15 Thread Zack Perry
Hi Andrew, Thanks for the pointer!  I found it too and spotted an oddity: It seems that Ubuntu has introduced a new utility: cobbler-ubuntu-import that handles importing Ubuntu ISO files correctly.  If so, perhaps we should take a look of it and James, perhaps we should incorporate it?   See als

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-15 Thread Andrew Hamilton
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Zack Perry wrote: > I think that I have some clues now. See the following two find results: > > [root@cobbler ks_mirror]# cd ubuntu-12.04.1-x86_64/ > [root@cobbler ubuntu-12.04.1-x86_64]# find . -name "*installer*" > ./dists/precise/restricted/debian-installer > ./

Re: [cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-15 Thread Zack Perry
I think that I have some clues now. See the following two find results: [root@cobbler ks_mirror]# cd ubuntu-12.04.1-x86_64/ [root@cobbler ubuntu-12.04.1-x86_64]# find . -name "*installer*" ./dists/precise/restricted/debian-installer ./dists/precise/main/debian-installer ./pool/main/g/grub-installe

[cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

2012-11-15 Thread Zack Perry
I have been testing 2.4.0 from epel-testing. So far, I have been successful in PXE booting Ubuntu-12.04.1-server, 64bit. Since I am off today, so this afternoon I decided to try to PXE boot Ubuntu 12.10 desktop. Setting up cobbler as usual, watching the initrd.gz and linux file retrieved succe