Matt S Unix Administrator wrote:
Michael DeHaan wrote:
Michael DeHaan wrote:
Matt S Unix Administrator wrote:
.. snip ...
Allright, so I've got a pretty good prototype of pxelinux menus being
generated from Cobbler now. One small problem -- timeouts don't
appear to count down at all -- or else, they just don't work --
documentation is fairly lacking. The following configuration file
(which has been generated from cobbler), shows that it will "Automatic
boot in X seconds", though after this time expires, nothing
happens.... what I really /need/ to happen is for it fall through to
local boot rather than hanging around on the menu screen. Does
anyone have any idea how to get this last bit working? This might
be my test hardware specifically, though I kind of doubt it.
Here's the file...
DEFAULT menu.c32
PROMPT 0
MENU TITLE Cobbler | http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
TIMEOUT 200
TOTALTIMEOUT 600
ONTIMEOUT local
LABEL local
MENU LABEL (local)
MENU DEFAULT
LOCALBOOT 0
LABEL fc62895
kernel /images/fc62895/vmlinuz
MENU LABEL fc62895
append ksdevice=eth0 lang= text syslog=192.168.1.99:25150
devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16438 append
initrd=/images/fc62895/initrd.img
ks=http://192.168.1.99/cobbler_track/kickstarts/fc62895/ks.cfg
I've also tried "ONTIMEOUT LOCALBOOT 0" which also doesn't work, as
well as leaving off the "ONTIMEOUT" bit and assuming the MENU DEFAULT
would do the right thing.
Provided I can't get this working, there's another decent way to make
this happen, that is slightly less usable. That's to set the DEFAULT
to "local" in the first few lines of the file, and we enable "PROMPT
1". Then the user has 20 or so seconds to type "menu" at the
pxelinux "boot:" prompt, otherwise it would boot locally. If they
type "menu", they would get the menu. It works, but it's not quite
obvious.
Anyone have any ideas on how to utilize timeouts and menu.c32 at the
same time?
Thanks,
--Michael
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I've had this same issue with the timeout, it never counts down.
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How do you approach this? Having the entire data center reboot and
having to visit menus to boot them would be bad :)
It's not so bad if you don't have the BIOS'es set to PXE first every
time though ... though it seems that some people do have (or want to
have) configurations set up that way. It would be a pretty easy way
(if not somewhat dangerous way) to reprovision boxes without needing to
invoke koan.
--MPD
