I do not believe PXE will work without DHCP. It is the DHCP server that points the new machine to the boot server.
BuildISO's do not need DHCP. You can make ONE image with IP's and MAC's for all 12 blades, but I do not know if you can use it on more than one at a time. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scot Floess" <[email protected]> To: "cobbler mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:31:11 PM Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile Sam, No that's fine - but are you serving up the tftp stuff correctly? Not sure this will work without that... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Sen" <[email protected]> To: "cobbler mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:28:03 PM Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile I don’t have the luxury of running DHCP (don’t ask). Regards, Sam From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Scot Floess Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:27 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile I don't have any experience with bonding interfaces (so can't guess if there's an issue there)... Let me ask a really dumb question - are you able to PXE boot other machines now? Not the blades - but any of your other machines on your network? ----- Original Message ----- <blockquote> From: "Sam Sen" < [email protected] > To: "cobbler mailing list" < [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:22:43 PM Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile Good catch, I did catch that prior to my initial post and tried again with “—mac” but it still doesn’t work. Regards, Sam From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Scot Floess Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:21 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile Sorry - I really didn't read closely... I did look at the thread...I notice you have -mac vs --mac in your example... <blockquote> From: "Sam Sen" < [email protected] > To: "cobbler mailing list" < [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:14:37 PM Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile Yep, that’s what I did. I tried that along with setting the name to the MAC Address of eth0. I should test this w/o the bonding interface set up. See my first post of the command I used to add the system. Regards, Sam From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Scot Floess Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:13 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile My apologies as I am walking into this late...but... If you know the mac addresses of each blade, you can add that system with --mac="some mac address" and each one when it PXE boots, Cobbler will do the right thing... <blockquote> From: "Sam Sen" < [email protected] > To: "cobbler mailing list" < [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:10:09 PM Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile Yes, I mount them via a virtual dvd. I really don’t want to have 12 different ISOs. It would be easier to just select the system name from the cobbler menu. Regards, Sam From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Dan White Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 2:09 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile Does each blade have its own optical drive ? “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) From: "Sam Sen" < [email protected] > To: "cobbler mailing list" < [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:49:12 PM Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile Hmmmm … so if I have 12 blades to build, is there a quicker way to do this? I would like to boot from ISO (the same ISO for all 12 systems) and have cobbler take over. I don’t think this will work without PXE based on what you’re telling me. Regards, Sam From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Dan White Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:45 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile The default behavior of the ISO is to boot from local media after a delay Look at a file : <iso root>/isolinux/isolinux.cfg “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) From: "Sam Sen" < [email protected] > To: "cobbler mailing list" < [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:36:07 PM Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile When the system boots up and loads the ISO, I thought it would automatically force the system to load a profile. In theory since there is no OS installed, it will start the OS installation without having you select from the cobbler menu. Is this feature not available for non-pxe boot? Dan White < [email protected] > wrote: So what is happening that should not happen ? Contrarywise, what is not happening that should ? “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) From: "Sam Sen" < [email protected] > To: "cobbler mailing list" < [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:22:47 PM Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile It’s there … [root@phl-00-cobbler iso]# cobbler profile list ORACLE Regards, Sam From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] ] On Behalf Of Dan White Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:12 PM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile What does the command "cobbler profile list" return ? If one of the lines is not "ORACLE", then that is your first problem. “Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.” Bill Waterson (Calvin & Hobbes) From: "Sam Sen" < [email protected] > To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 1:06:56 PM Subject: [cobbler] Assigning a system to a profile Not sure what I’m missing but I’m attempting to automatically install the OS with our new blade systems using a cobbler iso (generated by buildiso). The cobbler menu shows up with the list of available systems, but I want it to automatically install when it loads the ISO. I don’t have DHCP hence the use of the buildiso command. I added a new system by running the following command. Please note, the install works fine when I select the system but that’s not what I want. Notice I have the “mac” specified and I went as far as using the mac address of eth0 as the name for the system. Both times, I’m greeted with the menu and I’m forced to choose. cobbler system add --name=blade1 –mac=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX --profile=ORACLE --interface=bond0 --interface-type=bond --bonding-opts="mode=6 miimon=1000" --ip-address=172.31.20.45 --hostname=blade1.domain.com --ksmeta='server_type=DB disk_layout=BLADES_ORACLE' --subnet=255.255.255.0 --gateway=172.31.20.250 --kopts='ksdevice=eth0 ip=172.31.20.45 netmask=255.255.255.0 dns=172.31.10.220 gateway=172.31.20.250' --static=1 -- Sam Sen Sr Systems Administrator 215.913.4797 Aria Systems, Inc. 600 Reed Road, Suite 302 Broomall, PA 19008 www.ariasystems.com _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler -- Make It So Number One _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler </blockquote> -- Make It So Number One _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler </blockquote> -- Make It So Number One _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler </blockquote> -- Make It So Number One _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
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