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Bug 1077488

Summary:	Add Cobbler info for a fully automated cobbler build
Product:	Red Hat Satellite 5	Reporter:	Athene Chan <achan>
Component:	Docs Getting Started Guide	Assignee:	Dan Macpherson <dmacpher>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Dan Macpherson <dmacpher>
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Last Closed:	2015-09-16 02:20:17 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description Athene Chan 2014-03-18 05:05:26 UTC

This provisioning issue bit me the other week:

How do you make the cobbler boot menu NOT boot from localdisk?

You've orchestrated a 100%-automated (real-/pseudo-)bare-metal build from some magic orchestrator. It flicks the vm container, and the machine should "Just. Build. Itself. (tm)" and report back saying "done".

Obviously you want the machine to boot the kickstart from the isolinux menu.. but cobbler's bootmenu - whether in PXE or bootiso cd image - defaults "LOCAL" first (that's the blank harddrive) and someone has to hit the down arrow on the boot menu and hit enter for the kickstart.

The undocumented solution:
# cobbler system add --name=default --profile=<your-magicawesome-kickstart-profile>
# cobbler sync
default is a special keyword that ties that profile into the timeout default menu option.

Comment 6 Dan Macpherson 2015-09-16 02:20:17 UTC

Change has been pushed live. Closing bug.