Tim, 

Interesting! I hadn't noticed this before as I was not importing Fedora for 
quite some time :( 

Anyway, thanks for the follow up! 

Flossy 

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> From: "Tim Coote" <[email protected]>
> To: "cobbler mailing list" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2016 3:57:22 PM
> Subject: [cobbler] Re: Importing Fedora 23 (and 22 I believe) yields a kernel
> option of "repo=$tree"

> I used to get similar errors on f21: http://red.ht/1SWSHoV , which documents
> a workaround.

> I’m not sure that it got fixed as the bug report looks like it was simply
> closed as an error, even tho’ I’d reported the bug still appearing after the
> suggested fix. I’ve not migrated to f22, yet.

> tc

> > On 17 Jan 2016, at 14:35, Scot Floess < [email protected] > wrote:
> 

> > All,
> 

> > I've been going round and round importing Fedora 23 for a bit now.
> > Yesterday
> > I finally realized why imports were failing. I performed the following (as
> > root on my cobbler box):
> 
> > cd distro/iso/
> 
> > mkdir Fedora-23-x86_64
> 
> > mount Fedora-Server-DVD-x86_64-23.iso Fedora-23-x86_64 -t iso9660 -o loop
> 
> > cobbler import --name="Fedora-23-Test"
> > --path="/root/distro/iso/Fedora-23-x86_64"
> 

> > The import works as expected. I see the distro and profile for
> > Fedora-23-Test
> > in the web UI.
> 

> > I added a system named fedora-workstation-test...
> 

> > Then tried the following with koan:
> 
> > koan --server=admincloud --system=fedora-workstation-test --virt
> 

> > When looking at the console of the installing VM, it fails and I am greeted
> > with this dracut error:
> 
> > [ 20.097937] dracut-initqueue[540]: cat: /tmp/dd_disk: No such file or
> > directory
> 

> > I couldn't quite figure out what was going on or why. I've done the above
> > for
> > RHEL/CentOS 7.x as well.
> 

> > Here is the interesting part (and what I discovered yesterday): I started
> > looking closely at the web UI and noticed that for the Fedora 23 import,
> > the
> > Kernel Options had this value: repo=$tree
> 

> > I do not see that for RHEL/CentOS 7.2 (following similar steps). When I
> > removed the repo=$tree , koan installs worked without issue for Fedora.
> 

> > I'm enclosing a png that illustrates my point.
> 

> > I certainly have a work around (as in remove that kernel option) - but
> > definitely found this interesting. I tried Fedora 22 and thought I saw the
> > same behavior.
> 

> > Thanks!
> 

> > Flossy
> 

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