On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Zack Perry <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> Thanks for responding. My results are below.
>
> > > Now, I understand that very few people would use RHEL
> > > as desktops. Fedora? Sure. But setting the
> > > installation always to text mode seems
> > > to contradict with the official RHEL 6 Installation Guide.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to get the documented behavior, i.e. graphical
> > > by default, use text mode when desired?
> >
> > Remove the "text" option from the /etc/cobbler/settings
> > file, the line you pointed out in settings.py is the default
> > if no setting is found in the config file.
>
> Indeed this is the case. Now what I have is the following:
>
> [root@cobbler ~]# less /etc/cobbler/settings
> [...]
> # kernel options that should be present in every cobbler installation.
> # kernel options can also be applied at the distro/profile/system
> # level.
> kernel_options:
> ksdevice: bootif
> lang: ' '
> # text: ~
> [...]
>
> and
>
> [root@cobbler ~]# cobbler system dumpvars --name=nb1 |grep kernel_options
> kernel_options : ksdevice=bootif lang=
> keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us interface=eth0 locale=en_US kssendmac
> priority=critical
> kernel_options_post : reboot=efi
> kernel_options_s390x : {'vnc': '~', 'ip': False, 'RUNKS': 1,
> 'ramdisk_size': 40000, 'ro': '~', 'root': '/dev/ram0'}
>
> >
> > As for the install, it may work in text mode but if you
> > install a desktop environment you should get a system booting into
> > init 5 instead of init 3.
>
> My tests with CentOS 6.3, Fedora 17, and Scientific Linux 6.3 desktops
> have led me to conclude that even for desktop installation, if
> it's done in text mode, the runlevel is set to 3 in /etc/inittab
> instead of 5.
>
> But, if anaconda runs in the graphical mode (the default according to
> RHEL and Fedora's Installation Guides), then the following happens
> after the first post-install reboot (assuming 'root' is the only
> user initially):
>
> 0. The firstboot utility is launched
> 1. The runlevel is set to 5 in /etc/inittab
>
> This is the "officially" documented behavior and is what I tried to
> attain with my PXE network install tests. I used the following short
> Cheetah snippet in my kickstart template to switch anaconda to text
> mode for non-desktop installation for all three aforementioned Red
> Hat alike distros:
>
> #if not $profile_name.find('-desktop-') > 0
> text
> #end if
>
> BTW, all my profile is named with this convention:
>
> distro_name-{ph,vm}-{desktop,server}-arch, where ph: physical host;
> vm: virtual machine
>
> e.g.
>
> fedora17-ph-desktop-x86_64
> fedora17-ph-server-x86_64
> centos6-vm-server-x86_64
>
> The naming convention makes it feasible to use the above Cheetah
> conditional check.
>
Why didn't you just add the text option to the kernel options line for the
profiles if you have the different ones? I'm just curious.
Regards,
Andrew
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Zack
>
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