Hi Matt On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Matt Luettgen <mattluett...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is a way to have cobbler disable DHCP after the install. I'd have to > login to work to tell you how to do it. What I do is what Locane said. Set > the boot to Disk first, DHCP/PXE 2nd. First VM harddisk fails, so DHCP/PXE > is the next step. Then cobbler installs the OS. The next boot attempt goes > to the OS (because the boot order says disk first...)
Thanks, that works beautifully :-) I think the cobbler configuration option is: pxe_just_once: 1 > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Traiano Welcome <trai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Locane >> >> >> On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Locane <loc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > I don't work with VMs very much, but unless Virtual Box has some kind of >> > special API that allows you to connect to it and adjust "BIOS settings" >> > the >> > answer is probably No. >> >> That makes sense. I was hoping cobbler might include such a feature. >> >> >> > >> > Setting things like boot order or booting to a specific device requires >> > systems support from the manufacturer, in my experience. Supermicro's >> > IPMI >> > for example. >> > >> >> It seems cobbler supports this via IPMI on bare metal. >> >> >> > Why does your boot order have to be PXE -> Disk? I think it should be >> > flipped... If the disk is empty it should try PXE next. >> > >> >> >> For the initial installation, the VM device boot order needs to be PXE -> >> Disk. >> Once the installation has completed, reboot happens and the order >> needs to be disk first, or else we get a re-install loop, or hang. >> Basically my objective is to get a smooth boot into a newly installed >> system after the initial installation where the VM started off booting >> with PXE. >> >> >> > Again though, don't work with VMs very much. >> > >> > PS: SE Linux gets in the way of cobbler in pretty much everything. Just >> > turn it off. >> > >> > On Oct 29, 2017 3:13 AM, "Traiano Welcome" <trai...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi List >> >> >> >> I'm using cobbler to install virtualbox vms, which requires the boot >> >> order to be PXE -> Disk. >> >> >> >> However I'm not sure how to get cobbler to reconfigure the boot order >> >> so the VM boots off the disk after the install is complete (my VM >> >> attempts to boot off pxe again but fails because this is disabled in >> >> cobbler). >> >> >> >> Is there a confguration option in cobbler / kickstart that >> >> reconfigures the virtualbox device boot order once the install is >> >> complete? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Traiano >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> cobbler mailing list -- cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to cobbler-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > cobbler mailing list -- cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org >> > To unsubscribe send an email to cobbler-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list -- cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to cobbler-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list -- cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org > To unsubscribe send an email to cobbler-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list -- cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org To unsubscribe send an email to cobbler-le...@lists.fedorahosted.org
