Thanks, I sort of knew this but wasn't sure completely sure when one can add the kopts/kmeta options (profile/system/??). The addition of the edit command is a nice touch btw. Marc Mondragon Fox River Financial Resources/Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd. 2100 Enterprise Avenue Geneva, IL 60134 marcmo@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 12:11:10 -0400 > From: Michael DeHaan <mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [et-mgmt-tools] kernel_options in > /var/lib/cobbler/settings > To: Fedora/Linux Management Tools <et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <4638B81E.4090603@xxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed > > Marc Mondragon wrote: > > I know this area of cobbler has changed a bit and I'm trying to figure > the best way to do the following: > > > > 1. Add serial console settings to this file in order to have them > appended properly to the tftp boot files. > > 2. Have the serial console setting only apply to server installations, > not workstation installations? > > > (1) To do this across the board, you just edit > /var/lib/cobbler/settings ... though it sounds like you have something > better in mind by (2). > > (2) To do this to just some machines, it looks something like this... > > When adding a cobbler profile, do something like this: > > cobbler profile add --name=serverprofilename --distro=distroname > --kopts="console=ttyS0,57600" > > And for the workstation profile, don't add the same "--kopts"... > > cobbler profile add --name=workstationprofilename > --distro=distroname > > If you already have profiles you like defined, cobbler allows for > editing now, so you can tweak an existing profile to add the serial > console magic... > > cobbler profile edit --name=serverprofilename > --kopts="console=ttyS0,57600" > > So, any time you provision based on the "serverprofilename" profile, > you'll get the serial console, and in other cases, you won't... > > Hope that helps... > > --Michael > > > Marc Mondragon > > > > Fox River Financial Resources/Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd. > > 2100 Enterprise Avenue > > Geneva, IL 60134 > > marcmo@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 12:12:42 -0400 > From: "Adam Rosenwald" <thestrider@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [et-mgmt-tools] kernel_options in > /var/lib/cobbler/settings > To: "Fedora/Linux Management Tools" <et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <658267190705020912n55d6a174p5ced5dbc4869e398@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Marc, > > You can have separate "workstation" and "server" profiles and, for each, > you can specify different --kopts settings. For instance, to enable > serial > console redirection on server profile: > > cobbler profile add --name=servers ... --kopts="<other options> > console=ttyS0,9600n8" ... > > --A. > > On 5/2/07, Marc Mondragon <marcmo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I know this area of cobbler has changed a bit and I'm trying to figure > the > > best way to do the following: > > > > 1. Add serial console settings to this file in order to have them > appended > > properly to the tftp boot files. > > 2. Have the serial console setting only apply to server installations, > not > > workstation installations? > > > > Marc Mondragon > > > > Fox River Financial Resources/Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd. > > 2100 Enterprise Avenue > > Geneva, IL 60134 > > marcmo@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > et-mgmt-tools mailing list > > et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools > >
