5:11 p.m.
Hello Everyone,
I'm new to Cobbler and pretty new to Linux in general. I'm running into an
issue that I've exhausted all my resources, so I've come to you guys for
help. I setup Cobbler using CentOS 5.5 and I'm simply trying to PXE boot
Fedora 14 to a physical server. I'm able to PXE boot and see the tftp menu,
but when I choose my Fedora profile nothing happens. I don't get any error,
no process starts... simply nothing happens. It will just keep defaulting
back to the local profile. Can someone point me in the right direction? I'm
attaching some of my configuration, but if you need more please let me know.
[root@cobbler httpd]# vi /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
DEFAULT menu
PROMPT 0
MENU TITLE Cobbler | http://fedorahosted.org/cobbler
TIMEOUT 200
TOTALTIMEOUT 6000
ONTIMEOUT local
LABEL local
MENU LABEL (local)
MENU DEFAULT
LOCALBOOT 0
LABEL Fedora
kernel /images/Fedora/vmlinuz0
MENU LABEL Fedora
append initrd=/images/Fedora/initrd0.img ksdevice=bootif lang=
kssendmac text ks=http://192.168.8.68/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/Fedora
ipappend 2
MENU end
[root@cobbler httpd]# cobbler report
distros:
==========
Name : Fedora
Architecture : i386
Breed : redhat
Comment :
Initrd : /distros/fedora/isolinux/initrd0.img
Kernel : /distros/fedora/isolinux/vmlinuz0
Kernel Options : {}
Kernel Options (Post Install) : {}
Kickstart Metadata : {}
Management Classes : []
OS Version : generic26
Owners : ['admin']
Red Hat Management Key : <<inherit>>
Red Hat Management Server : <<inherit>>
Template Files : {}
profiles:
==========
Name : Fedora
Comment :
DHCP Tag : default
Distribution : fedora
Enable PXE Menu? : 1
Kernel Options : {}
Kernel Options (Post Install) : {}
Kickstart : /distros/kickstart/fedora-ks.cfg
Kickstart Metadata : {}
Management Classes : []
Name Servers : []
Name Servers Search Path : []
Owners : ['admin']
Parent Profile :
Red Hat Management Key : <<inherit>>
Red Hat Management Server : <<inherit>>
Repos : []
Server Override : <<inherit>>
Template Files : {}
Virt Auto Boot : 1
Virt Bridge : xenbr0
Virt CPUs : 1
Virt File Size(GB) : 5
Virt Path :
Virt RAM (MB) : 512
Virt Type : xenpv
systems:
==========
repos:
==========
images:
==========
[root@cobbler httpd]#
1:04 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:11:16 -0600, Eric Riser <eriser04(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I'm new to Cobbler and pretty new to Linux in general. I'm running into an
issue that I've exhausted all my resources, so I've come to you guys for
help. I setup Cobbler using CentOS 5.5 and I'm simply trying to PXE boot
Fedora 14 to a physical server. I'm able to PXE boot and see the tftp menu,
but when I choose my Fedora profile nothing happens. I don't get any error,
no process starts... simply nothing happens. It will just keep defaulting
back to the local profile. Can someone point me in the right direction? I'm
attaching some of my configuration, but if you need more please let me know.
Can you check /var/log/messages on the cobbler server and see if it is
seeing the request for the vmlinuz and initrd? I've seen this happen
when the tftp server is getting permission denied due to selinux.
--
Scott Henson
Red Hat CIS Operator
WVU Alum BSAE/BSME
2:20 p.m.
Hello Scott,
Thanks for responding and trying to help me out. I checked the log and this
is the message I'm getting
"Mar 7 14:17:52 cobbler in.tftpd[3322]: tftp: client does not accept
options"
Any advice ?
Thanks,
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Scott Henson <shenson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:11:16 -0600, Eric Riser
<eriser04(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm new to Cobbler and pretty new to Linux in general. I'm running into
an
> issue that I've exhausted all my resources, so I've come to you guys for
> help. I setup Cobbler using CentOS 5.5 and I'm simply trying to PXE boot
> Fedora 14 to a physical server. I'm able to PXE boot and see the tftp
menu,
> but when I choose my Fedora profile nothing happens. I don't get any
error,
> no process starts... simply nothing happens. It will just keep defaulting
> back to the local profile. Can someone point me in the right direction?
I'm
> attaching some of my configuration, but if you need more please let me
know.
Can you check /var/log/messages on the cobbler server and see if it is
seeing the request for the vmlinuz and initrd? I've seen this happen
when the tftp server is getting permission denied due to selinux.
--
Scott Henson
Red Hat CIS Operator
WVU Alum BSAE/BSME
2:31 p.m.
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:20:00 -0600, Eric Riser <eriser04(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Scott,
Thanks for responding and trying to help me out. I checked the log and this
is the message I'm getting
"Mar 7 14:17:52 cobbler in.tftpd[3322]: tftp: client does not accept
options"
Any advice ?
That isn't problematic. I'd fire up wireshark and make sure the tftp
data (in the form of the kernel and initrd) are making it across to the
host.
I've also seen this when someone was trying to boot a xen kernel image
on bare metal or a 64bit image on a 32bit host. Could either of these be
happening to you?
--
Scott Henson
Red Hat CIS Operator
WVU Alum BSAE/BSME
7:50 p.m.
On 03/07/2011 03:31 PM, Scott Henson wrote:
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 14:20:00 -0600, Eric
Riser<eriser04(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Scott,
>
> Thanks for responding and trying to help me out. I checked the log and this
> is the message I'm getting
>
> "Mar 7 14:17:52 cobbler in.tftpd[3322]: tftp: client does not accept
> options"
>
> Any advice ?
That isn't problematic. I'd fire up wireshark and make sure the tftp
data (in the form of the kernel and initrd) are making it across to the
host.
I've also seen this when someone was trying to boot a xen kernel image
on bare metal or a 64bit image on a 32bit host. Could either of these be
happening to you?
Thank you for suggesting wireshark. I am in the process of installing
it. Reading your responses is good network training for me.
Bob Cochran
2:27 p.m.
Hello Scott,
I followed your advice and disabled SELinux completely to test this out.
After I disabled SELinux it finally accepted my kickstart.
Thanks!!
On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Scott Henson <shenson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:11:16 -0600, Eric Riser
<eriser04(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm new to Cobbler and pretty new to Linux in general. I'm running into
an
> issue that I've exhausted all my resources, so I've come to you guys for
> help. I setup Cobbler using CentOS 5.5 and I'm simply trying to PXE boot
> Fedora 14 to a physical server. I'm able to PXE boot and see the tftp
menu,
> but when I choose my Fedora profile nothing happens. I don't get any
error,
> no process starts... simply nothing happens. It will just keep defaulting
> back to the local profile. Can someone point me in the right direction?
I'm
> attaching some of my configuration, but if you need more please let me
know.
Can you check /var/log/messages on the cobbler server and see if it is
seeing the request for the vmlinuz and initrd? I've seen this happen
when the tftp server is getting permission denied due to selinux.
--
Scott Henson
Red Hat CIS Operator
WVU Alum BSAE/BSME
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