Thats not an option as the action_buildiso code is inserting syslinux menu commands, also I only need this for virtual for physical I would want default Local in place e.g. hence supplying an option to buildiso would be nice.
I think this is probably just a use case for this particular env, I will take a look at a patch and see if it makes sense. Cheers, Simon On Tue 03/01/12 12:54 PM , Michael DeHaan <[email protected]> wrote: > "Right you can change the bootiso template but the ontimeout value needs to > match the System or Profile name your requesting," > If you know what it's going to timeout to, you should just set the IP/MAC > so it boots directly and not use the menu, otherwise you won't know what > you are supposed to default to anyway. > -- Michael > > On Tuesday, January 3, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Simon Woolsgrove wrote: > > Right you can change the bootiso template but the ontimeout value needs to > match the System or Profile name your requesting, in this use case its > always a system since were creating single system iso's passing the ip > details on the boot line, call it a very poor replacement for dhcp. We can > not use the same default name over and over, the buildiso template does not > support replacing variables that I am aware? like say in the pxe template > but it should not be too much to add this. > > Cheers,Simon > > On Fri 30/12/11 4:25 PM , Michael DeHaan wrote: > Ah, you said ontimeout? Try editing the templates in /etc/cobbler… > the"local" part is in that template, not the cobbler source, so you can > changeit. > -- Michael > On Friday, December 30, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Michael DeHaan wrote: Thisfeature > already exists. Create a system named "default":cobbler system add > --name=default --profile=fooPXE also works by IP, so it at least used to > work that you could create asystem ip in CIDR notation to get the same > thing for just a part of yournetwork:cobbler system add > --name=thisNetworkHasADefault --ip=255.255.255.0/16 --profile=fooThe latter > may o --Michael > -- Michael > On Friday, December 30, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Jörgen Maas wrote: On Fri, Dec30, > 2011 at 1:10 PM, wrote: > Have a use case that maybe unique to us as were not unfortunately > usingDHCPor all our vlans. We automate on demand VMware guests by using > aworkflowengine to; create the guest images, cobbler system record, request > cobblerbuildiso, attach iso and boot guest, detach iso. Our issue is > thenthat on the isolinux timeout the default boot is Local which is fine > for99% ofcases but not this as the guest build fails. Currently we > haveanother stepto mangle the cd athough it occurs the better solution > maybe toadd anotheroption say ontimeout so that can be supplied via > api/cli (notsure it makessense in the webui)?Hi Simon, so you want to be > able to control the value of the ONTIMEOUT. So that you can select a system > to install without any further intervention?-- > Grtz,JörgenMaas_______________________________________________cobbler-deve > [email protected]https://fedorahosted.org/mai > lman/li[1]stinfo/cobbler-devel[1] > _______________________________________________ cobbler-devel mailing > [email protected]https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/li > stinfo/cobbler-devel[2] [2] > > Links:------[1] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel [3] > [2] > > Links: > ------ > [1] http://fedorahosted.org/mailman/li > [2] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel > [3] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel > [4] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel > > _______________________________________________ cobbler-devel mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler-devel
