Hi Locane
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 1:40 PM, Locane <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't work with VMs very much, but unless Virtual Box has some kind of > special API that allows you to connect to it and adjust "BIOS settings" the > answer is probably No. That makes sense. I was hoping cobbler might include such a feature. > > Setting things like boot order or booting to a specific device requires > systems support from the manufacturer, in my experience. Supermicro's IPMI > for example. > It seems cobbler supports this via IPMI on bare metal. > Why does your boot order have to be PXE -> Disk? I think it should be > flipped... If the disk is empty it should try PXE next. > For the initial installation, the VM device boot order needs to be PXE -> Disk. Once the installation has completed, reboot happens and the order needs to be disk first, or else we get a re-install loop, or hang. Basically my objective is to get a smooth boot into a newly installed system after the initial installation where the VM started off booting with PXE. > Again though, don't work with VMs very much. > > PS: SE Linux gets in the way of cobbler in pretty much everything. Just > turn it off. > > On Oct 29, 2017 3:13 AM, "Traiano Welcome" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi List >> >> I'm using cobbler to install virtualbox vms, which requires the boot >> order to be PXE -> Disk. >> >> However I'm not sure how to get cobbler to reconfigure the boot order >> so the VM boots off the disk after the install is complete (my VM >> attempts to boot off pxe again but fails because this is disabled in >> cobbler). >> >> Is there a confguration option in cobbler / kickstart that >> reconfigures the virtualbox device boot order once the install is >> complete? >> >> Thanks, >> Traiano >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list -- [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
