Bug 714405 - Cobbler: Adding system named "default" no longer suppresses the PXE menu
Summary: Cobbler: Adding system named "default" no longer suppresses the PXE menu
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: cobbler
Version: 14
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
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Assignee: James C.
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-06-19 02:11 UTC by Charles Butterfield
Modified: 2012-04-17 01:31 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-04-17 01:30:35 UTC
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Description Charles Butterfield 2011-06-19 02:11:41 UTC
Description of problem:

Adding system named "default" no longer suppresses the PXE menu

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): cobbler.noarch-2.0.11-2.fc14


How reproducible: Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete all systems
2. Add system named "default" with some profile
3. PXE boot (I'm using a KVM VM and thus gPXE)
  
Actual results:
Get a menu showing "local" plus all of the profiles, which then goes to the default "local", which doesn't do anything useful.


Expected results:
Directly install the profile associated with system "default"


Additional info:

Comment 1 Charles Butterfield 2011-06-19 02:14:24 UTC
Hmmm, I should mention that after the initial failure, I did the following "just to be sure":

cobbler sync
system cobblerd restart
cobbler sync
system cobblerd restart

Still no joy

Comment 2 James C. 2012-04-17 01:30:35 UTC
This would seem to be a weird side-effect rather than a feature that was broken. Adding a flag/setting to disable the generation of the default menu would probably be better. In the meantime, profiles have the option --enable-menu which prevents that profile from showing up in the default list. If you set that to 0 for all of your profiles, your default menu item will be empty except for the localboot option.

I'm going to go ahead and close this as a non-bug, if you'd like to request a feature to disable generation of the PXE default file, please do so on the github issue tracker: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/issues


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