Dhawal Doshy wrote:
I am trying to add memtest as one of the distros.. # cobbler distro add --name=memtest --kernel=/tmp/memtest cannot find kernel file # file /tmp/memtest /tmp/memtest: x86 boot sector A 'real' kernel also lists as a 'x86 boot sector' file.. # file /var/www/cobbler/images/centos/vmlinuz /var/www/cobbler/images/centos/vmlinuz: x86 boot sector Can this be considered as a low priority feature request? - dhawal _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
The file type checking implementation in cobbler currently a bit "lame", and looks to see if something has "vmlinuz" in it for kernel names. Executing "file" for local files would be smarter. The one catch here is that there are two kinds of initrd files -- CPIO and gzips, so that is something to be careful about. This would involve some small changes to util.py.
Another idea -- rather than having a cobbler "memtest" distro (which would require a lot of hacking to prevent files being written to /var/lib/cobbler and confusing koan), it might be better to have cobbler, when writing out the PXE menus, just to create an additional PXE menu entry for memtest, possibly adding it to the cobbler package if it's not clearly available in another package. This entry could appear last or first in the list, either way. It defintely wouldn't need to be a full fledged distro (with an entry in /var/lib/cobbler/distros, etc) as it's not really installable. This would require changes just in action_sync.py
Both of these seem pretty easy to do ... perhaps someone on-list would like to submit a patch or two? Wink, wink, nudge, nudge?
--Michael
