I'm glad it's working for you in Traiano. Can you check on the boot order for your VM? I bet it's unchanged, and what Cobbler is actually doing is setting up a "personalized" pxe boot menu for your system that just loads local disk. I briefly checked out the pxe_just_once flag and it described how it functions but not how it accomplishes its function. I'm guessing it works like that.
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Traiano Welcome <trai...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >
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