For completeness' sake, this allowed me to get into the installer (which for some reason only let me choose text mode or VNC, even though I was at a workstation. Go figure). Basically, I added http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/i386/os/ as the inst.repo value and voila!

Name                           : F17-PAE-i386
Architecture                   : i386
TFTP Boot Files                : {}
Breed                          : redhat
Comment                        : 
Fetchable Files                : {}
Initrd                         : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/F17-i386/images/pxeboot/initrd-PAE.img
Kernel                         : /var/www/cobbler/ks_mirror/F17-i386/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz-PAE
Kernel Options                 : {'inst.repo': 'http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/i386/os/'}
Kernel Options (Post Install)  : {}
Kickstart Metadata             : {'tree': 'http://@@http_server@@/cblr/links/F17-PAE-i386'}
Management Classes             : []
OS Version                     : fedora17
Owners                         : ['admin']
Red Hat Management Key         : <<inherit>>
Red Hat Management Server      : <<inherit>>
Template Files                 : {}

Thanks, Scot and Alan for your help.


Bret

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Bret Wortman <bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com> wrote:
Yes. I sync'd, but that was the only thing I did between making the change and making the boot attempt.



On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Scot Floess <sfloess@redhat.com> wrote:
So for me, it dropped into drakut (I think I'm spelling that right) as you've described...

Did you run sync once you made the change to Fedora 17 as the OS type?

From: "Bret Wortman" <bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com>
To: "cobbler mailing list" <cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 12:54:59 PM

Subject: Re: [cobbler] How to PXE boot F17 now?

Well, crud. That didn't change anything. Same result.


On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Bret Wortman <bret.wortman@damascusgrp.com> wrote:
Aha. I see what you're saying now. I'll make a change and try again. Thanks for your patient assistance, Scot.

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