Michael DeHaan wrote:
Tom Brown wrote:
Hmm, I'm not sure I understand the question. All kernel options
given to cobbler settings, distros, profiles, and systems end up
used by koan.
Can you elaborate?
on a rebuild IP, mask and gateway info thats in cobbler does not get
pulled by koan and inserted onto the grub command line unless you
specify the --kopts when you provision a system or hand it to koan at
the rebuild time.
If you have those variables stored on the system object's --kopts, you
just invoke koan as:
koan --server=cobbler.example.org --replace-self
--system=this_system_name
If the mac address is in Cobbler, it's smart enough to auto-find the
system, so you can just do:
koan --server=cobbler.example.org --replace-self
I think what you're saying is if the network parameters are not in
--kopts, but are stored on the interface, they don't show up in --kopts.
This is true.
Before we used to have a parameter to auto-discover the network
details from the local system and append them to the kernel options
line to eliminate DHCP, however due to some python version
incompatibilies we had to remove that feature. If that is
interesting, this is something that we could work on cleaning up and
adding back.
Another option would be to add in support for just using the IP info
in cobbler and adding /that/ to --kopts implicitly.
Perhaps this would look like:
koan --server=cobbler.example.org --replace-self --use-static-interface=0
All of these problems of course go away when you have DHCP :)
--Michael
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What about auto-discovery of IP, netmask, gateway when explicitly
performing a koan --replace-self operation? The discovered values can
then be appended to and/or override the koan kopts string. This seems
like the most logical approach, given that this is needed only when not
using dhcp.
-A.
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