I don't know if top or bottom posting is correct, so I'll bottom post for now: >>> mdehaan@xxxxxxxxxx 02/19/08 8:23 AM >>> Jasper Capel wrote: > I'm always using a non-xen kernel for my PXE-boots, I think the > provided xen-kernel was meant to be used for DomU-installs. Why don't > you just modify your kickstart file to include the required > Xen-software? You only have to add xen and kernel-xen to the packages > section. >Absolutely correct. You don't want to pick any profile with "xen" in >the name for bare metal installs, you instead add the packages to your >kickstart. Of course when doing the guest OS's you do need the ones >with "xen" in the name. >Ultimately having an "exclude-from-menu" feature in Cobbler (on the >distro) might be worthwhile, as this can be detected during import. >This would cause >any cobbler profiles attached to the distro to not show up in the menus >because they weren't PXE compatible. (Note that this will only ever apply >to Xen paravirt kernels). >Make sense? >--Michael > > Jasper > > Sean Embry wrote: >> Pardon if this was covered before... I looked through the last >> 2 months archive, and found only "Invalid Kernel", and that >> appeared to be all distros, not just xen. >> >> Did a bare metal install to what would become >> the cobbler server via DVD of Fedora 8 i686, (32 bit) >> non-xen install. Set up 8 IPs in /var/lib/cobbler for DHCP >> in a subnet without DHCP, imported images for >> Fedora 8 (32 and 64 bit), and RH 5.2 (32 and 64). >> >> All non Xen installs work fine, but no Xen kernels will. From >> the PXE boot prompt, selecting "menu", then any Xen >> kernel gives a "Invalid kernel" error. I don't see anything >> out of place in the error logs, and I'm pretty much stuck >> on dead center. I guess I could just stay with non-xen >> and add it later via "Add/Remove Software", but that >> seems to be a pain in the neck I'd rather do without... >> >> I've not tried xen installs using ftp or http yet, that's for the >> morning... >> >> Please let me know what other info I can provide to >> trouble shoot this problem. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Sean Embry >> Systems/Database Administrator >> NISD.NET >> snip sigs Jasper, thank you. I did just that and it worked out fine. Michael, Thank you. I've got that working now. WOOT! Sean _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list et-mgmt-tools@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools
