Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-16 Thread David Lee
Michael DeHaan wrote: [...] This reads a bit negatively, as nobody's failing to think here. Cobbler covers a wide variety of audiences. There are people using it in home labs, up to systems with 50k+ nodes in distributed data centers all over the world. A lot of what Cobbler does is

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-16 Thread Michael DeHaan
My first thought would be if you're still specifying your original kickstart, that's interfering with rescue mode, or some other kernel option conflicts. Not sure I've ever seen this red countdown screen. Are you talking about graphical install mode? On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:48 AM, David Lee

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-16 Thread Jörgen Maas
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure I've ever seen this red countdown screen.   Are you talking about graphical install mode? I think he means the RHEL6 splash screen. -- Grtz, Jörgen Maas ___

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-16 Thread David Lee
Jörgen Maas wrote: On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Michael DeHaan michael.deh...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure I've ever seen this red countdown screen. Are you talking about graphical install mode? I think he means the RHEL6 splash screen. Yes (happens to be RHEL 5.6 in my particular

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-16 Thread David Lee
David Lee wrote: [...] 3. I still think there's a lack in the documentation. So I intend to try to document something in the wiki, taking into account that: (a) a Redhat user would be searching for the word rescue; (b) cobbler's design and strategy is OS-agnostic; (c) real examples are

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-16 Thread Michael DeHaan
A page named Rescue mode is more appropriate than a generic catch-all. What's a hint? What's not? Etc. -- Michael On Friday, December 16, 2011 at 11:52 AM, David Lee wrote: David Lee wrote: [...] 3. I still think there's a lack in the documentation. So I intend to try to document

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-16 Thread Jörgen Maas
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:52 PM, David Lee david@ecmwf.int wrote: David Lee wrote: [...] 3.  I still think there's a lack in the documentation.  So I intend to try to document something in the wiki, taking into account that:  (a) a Redhat user would be searching for the word rescue;  

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-16 Thread David Lee
I don't mind what the page name is. I put the Redhat in the name because other non-Redhat-ish systems might have something vaguely rescue-ish. So we would want both this current Redhat rescue topic and a potential (say) Debian rescue topic. The hints was to allow us to have one page that

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-15 Thread Greg Swift
I realize it makes re-enabling the feature more complicated but I'd like to throw my hat in with the --rescue-mode=true style of use instead of changing profiles. On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 08:28, David Lee david@ecmwf.int wrote: Thanks, Michael. I filed a ticket (#14) on 7 December. Joergen

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-15 Thread Jörgen Maas
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Greg Swift gregsw...@gmail.com wrote: I realize it makes re-enabling the feature more complicated but I'd like to throw my hat in with the --rescue-mode=true style of use instead of changing profiles. If some sort of command flag is desired it should (imo) be

RE: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-15 Thread Mann, Owen
-Original Message- From: cobbler-boun...@lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:cobbler-boun...@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Jörgen Maas Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:13 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: redhat rescue mode? On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Greg Swift gregsw

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-15 Thread David Lee
Jörgen Maas wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Mann, Owen owen.m...@interactivedata.com wrote: My 2cents: I never had a problem with switching profiles. But I thought - and correct me if I'm wrong - rescue-mode for RHEL is just a matter of adding rescue to the Kernel Options field.

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-15 Thread Michael DeHaan
Could those voting against the proposed --rescue-mode=true provide a working, and tested, recipe of the steps to achieve this, please? Rescue mode works independent of approach A or B, it's a distribution feature, not a Cobbler feature. The how it works in Cobbler's interface is different

redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-06 Thread David Lee
(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

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
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

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-06 Thread David Lee
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:

Re: redhat rescue mode?

2011-12-06 Thread Michael DeHaan
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