Scott,
Thanks for the reply. Can you expand upon:
"Cobbler doesn't really map to pxe in the standard way. The cobbler
system name isn't exposed to pxe in the way that you are assuming."
Also, per the man page of cobbler in the "SYSTEM" section:
===
name
The system name works like the name option for other commands.
If the name looks like a MAC address or an IP, the name will
implicitly be used for either --mac
or --ip of the first interface, respectively. However, it’s
usually better to give a
descriptive name -- don’t rely on this behavior.
A system created with name "default" has special semantics. If a
default system object exists,
it sets all undefined systems to PXE to a specific profile. Without
a "default" system name
created, PXE will fall through to local boot for unconfigured
systems.
When using "default" name, don’t specify any other arguments than
--profile ... they won’t be
used.
===
To me that says that if I use --name=default all undefined machines should use
that profile. Am I misinterpreting the man page? Also, I don't want to modify
the PXE directory directly because if `cobbler sync` is ever run in the future
then the contents will be overwritten.
-James
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Henson" <[email protected]>
To: "cobbler" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 3:06:20 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: Cobbler default system not working
Excerpts from James Labocki's message of Fri Jan 29 14:46:45 -0500 2010:
> Using cobbler-1.6.6-3.el5sat
>
> After setting up a default system in cobbler using `cobbler system add
> --name=default --profile=rhel5mrg`
>
> systems continue to boot to localdisk instead of using the rhel5mrg profile
>
> # cobbler list
> distro ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5
> distro ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5-u1
> distro ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5-u1:xen
> distro ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5-u2
> distro ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5-u2:xen
> distro ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5-u3
> distro ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5-u3:xen
> distro ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5-u4
> profile coe-mrg-grid:1:Red-Hat
> profile coeiadrhel5base:1:Red-Hat
> distro ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5-u4:xen
> distro ks-rhel-x86_64-server-5:xen
> distro rhel54server64
> profile rhel5mrg
> system 00:1A:4A:0F:45:16
> system default
>
> When I use `cobbler system add --name=default --profile=rhel5mrg
> --mac=00:1A:4A:0F:45:16` the system then boots to rhel5mrg. What am I missing?
Cobbler doesn't really map to pxe in the standard way. The cobbler
system name isn't exposed to pxe in the way that you are assuming.
The pxe system is keyed off off the mac address only. You can put a
default directly in pxe (in the normal way) pointing at the rhel54mrg
profile. This will make systems boot by default into the mrg profile.
--
Scott Henson
Red Hat CIS Operator
WVU Alum BSAE/BSME
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