Matt Ford wrote: > Ah, my fault! When scanning through the code pxegen.py I noticed that > you had a check to see if the distro had -xen in the name. I realised > then that I'd inadvertently based my profile off of a paravirtualised > distro. So my problems are solved! ;-) > > On that note I wonder if it sensible to have paravirtualised > distributions distinguished by having -xen in the name when all other > config has been abstracted into properties? Why not a [para-virtualised]
Basically because I didn't want another command line option or WUI checkbox for a one-time hack (split Xen kernels) -- I believe recent Fedora has them unified, and the future is going to have more and more KVM. --Michael > 2009/5/6 Matt Ford <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > 2009/5/6 Michael DeHaan <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > These are inserted fine from a cobbler import. I have > mirrored some > > > repos and created my own profile called ngs-xen-server. > Note, I see > > no xen enabled repos at all in the menu above. > > By design, you can't PXE boot those. They are paravirt > kernels. And > you mean "profiles" not "repos", here. A bit of difference :) > > > Ah yes. Of course - slaps self for such lazy language and missing > the obvious. > > > However if you have a system named "default" that has special > semantics > and would keep any of the menu from being generated. > > > No systems at all present (I read I didn't need them for PXE only > installs) > > [r...@storage008 ~]# cobbler system list > [r...@storage008 ~]# > > Profiles who have arches other than i386 or x86_64 also do not > show up > in the menu. You may want to check to see what arch is > assigned to > your various distro objects. If you upgraded > a rather old cobbler install, it may be that the arch fields > on your > distros are wrong? > > > Hmmm - anything more complicated to check than: > > [r...@storage008 ~]# cobbler distro report | grep -a1 arch > distro : CentOS-5.2-x86_64 > architecture : x86_64 > breed : redhat > -- > distro : CentOS-5.2-xen-x86_64 > architecture : x86_64 > breed : redhat > -- > distro : CentOS-5.3-x86_64 > architecture : x86_64 > breed : redhat > -- > distro : CentOS-5.3-xen-x86_64 > architecture : x86_64 > breed : redhat > > Is it time to start scanning the code? Is there a way of making > cobbler a lot more verbose? > > Cheers, > > Matt. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
