On 06/30/2009 06:42 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Okay. I have a laptop here which really can PXE boot, and it has a brand
> new, bare 160 Gb hard drive in it. I wish to use cobbler to install
> Fedora 11 on it, either the i386 or the PAE-i386, whichever flavor the
> machine can accept.
>
> After PXE booting successfully, I can see this blue-colored text-based
> screen:
>
> Cobbler |
http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
>
> (local)
> Fedora11-PAE-i386
> Fedora11-i386
> rescue-Fedora11-PAE-i386
> rescue-Fedora11-i386
>
> Press [Tab] to edit options
>
> And there is a white selection bar at the (local) option.
>
> My question is, what do I do next to get a Fedora install started? If I
> move the white selection bar down to "Fedora11-PAE-i386" and then press
> the<enter> key nothing happens. If I press the<tab> key I see a long
> boot incantation. But pressing<enter> seems to do nothing there, too.
> Obviously I have missed reading documentation somewhere. Is there a wiki
> page that tells me how to get an actual install started?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Bob
>
>
I have significant new information based on checking the server
machine's logs. The cobblerd server is a Fedora 11 x86_64 machine
running under SELinux enforcing mode, and it looks like SELinux is
unhappy about tftp. Go here
http://www.greenbeltcomputer.biz/cobbler_install_attempt.html
to see photos of my install attempt plus the /var/log/messages entries.
Bob
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--Michael