Hi there,
Still trying to provision windows using the Foreman.
Windows requires reboot several times during the installation problem.
Problem is, when it reboots it won't boot from the local drive and restart
the setup.
I worked around this by getting unattended/built before the first reboot.
While this works, it has two big disadvantages:
- First, it instructs foreman that the system is installed. However when
the status is set to build, it's only the first reboot during the install
and things can still go very wrong => reporting is misleading
- Second, the finish script is not available anymore once built is
called (http get returns an empty file). I could get the script from
another place (like network drive) but it's not ideal => additional
complexity / less flexibility
So my question is: is there a proper way to make the foreman change the pxe
booting of a host to local drive before getting unattended/built?
Since I know calling unattended/build does it, I've tried to dig in the
source code.
In the routes and couldn't find an url in unattended/???? to enable pxe
local boot.
Also I am not sure I understand what happens when we get unattended/built.
I found this piece of code from the unattended_controller.rb:
def built
> logger.info "#{controller_name}: #{@host.name} is Built!"
> update_ip if Setting[:update_ip_from_built_request]
> head(@host.built ? :created : :conflict)
> end
I don't understand (new to ruby and rails) how this could trigger actions
such as changing tftp. Not sure what head is nor where it's defined.
Is it changing an host parameter? Then this change sends a signal and other
scripts run? Which ones?
Also I've seen that the proxy receive a POST request to change the booting
file (in my case /tftp/syslinux/mac_address)
I am guessing I could try to post from the host to the proxy server
directly but this seems wrong as well.
Have you had this issue before ?
How did you tackle it?
Would you have any pointers?
Thanks,
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