On 09/29/2009 11:50 AM, David Jablonski wrote: > I have built 5 other machines using the usb image I created using the > cobbler buildiso and the usb-livecd commands. Unfortunately this > particular machine currently will boot to the menu and then the keyboard > doesn't work and it won't load the kernel image (even if I change the > default to be the correct profile manually on the boot disk). It just > starts to load the isolinux image and then goes right back to the menu. > > Has anyone experienced this before? Is this a module missing issue? > The machine is a Dell Optiplex GX620. Unfortunately I don't see any > errors... > > Also I can get a Koan LiveCD to boot fine. Can I use this to start the > baremetal install process? This machine has brand new harddrives and > koan has never been installed. I'm not sure how to use the Koan LiveCD > to start the baremetal install process. Thanks for any advice... > >
Usually something locking up at the PXE menu is a sign that syslinux is downlevel and needs to be updated for the hardware in question. You may want to try compiling from source (or otherwise installing a newer one) and replacing the file in /var/lib/cobbler and then re-running 'cobbler sync', to use a newer syslinux. In particular we know the one on RHEL 4 can cause problems with some BIOSes (or well, systems at least). Re: live CD ... As a sidenote, there are various issues with the live CD as build from new Fedoras (particularly in arguments passed to grubby), so in the general sense the live CD is "in progress" until we get the time to finish it. This is something I'd like to do, but other things have been taking a priority lately. Another option you have is to key in the mac address into Cobbler (make a cobbler system record) and try booting directly to that, if the actual problem is in menu.c32 (the syslinux graphical menu) that would skip the problem by booting to it directly. --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
