There is a way to have cobbler disable DHCP after the install. I'd have to login to work to tell you how to do it. What I do is what Locane said. Set the boot to Disk first, DHCP/PXE 2nd. First VM harddisk fails, so DHCP/PXE is the next step. Then cobbler installs the OS. The next boot attempt goes to the OS (because the boot order says disk first...)
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Traiano Welcome <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >
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