Dhawal Doshy wrote:
Michael DeHaan wrote:
I've noticed that the pxelinux that ships with RHEL4 (test platform:
RHEL4U4) does not work well at all with new PXE menus, though the
version shipping with FC6 works great. Basically it doesn't
understand the menu label options.
If you have RHEL4's version of syslinux installed, the fix here is to
install a newer syslinux. I'll file the bug for good measure (if
this is even a bug?) and may bundle a known-good pxelinux.0 in the
next release. The workaround is pretty simple though. If anyone
still has questions, feel free to ask.
Finally got the time to try out the newer 0.4.2 version.. the default
menu gets created nicely and i am trying to use a local kickstart file
rather than a URL (to explore templating options)..
However, while trying to pxeboot a test server, it just stays at the
menu (tab works fine though).. looks like i need to upgrade syslinux OR
pxelinux.0 as you've mentioned. Now since syslinux needs an upgrade (the
latest being 3.36) do you have any recommendations for the version?
Upgraded to syslinux 3.36 and all is well.. though as you mention a
simple change to a newer pxelinux.0 would have worked equally well.
wget
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.36.tar.gz
yum install netpbm-progs nasm
rpmbuild -ta syslinux-3.36.tar.gz
rpm -Fvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/syslinux-3.36-1.i386.rpm # the other
RPMs are not required.
Change in /var/lib/cobbler/settings this line:
standard: /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0
to this:
standard: /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0
A 'cobbler sync' makes the necessary changes..
Finally can anyone post some more examples of the ks templating??
cheers,
- dhawal
