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.
Change has been pushed live. Closing bug.