Hey Andres, after digging a bit further into the issue I think iv found
the cause, iv got a system that inherits from a profile, the parent
profile specifies the following kernel options:
priority=critical locale=en_US
In the inheriting system iv specified:
priority=critical locale=en_US hostname=ubu2
Iv found that cobbler generates a file under:
/var/lib/tftpboot/grub/MAC_ADDRESS
This file contains the hostname:
title developer-desktop
root (nd)
kernel /images/ubuntu-alternate-x86_64/linux locale= locale=en_US text
hostname=ubu2 priority=critical auto
url=http://192.168.4.18/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/ubu2 hostname= domain=local.lan
suite=natty
initrd /images/ubuntu-alternate-x86_64/initrd.gz
Notice that the hostname entry is duplicated with one entry empty, then when
ill try to install a machine the installer will indeed complain about an empty
hostname value, no matter what I specify in my kickstart meta data (looks like
kernel options take precedence)
The only solution is to set the hostname in the systems kernel options
(leaving it out will also result with an empty value passed to the
installer no matter what).
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