On 14/2/25 12:27 PM, Outland, Mike wrote:
Petro,
Thank you for the quick response.
I’m wondering why this is the case. I am only using the default options for
tftp and cobbler in this regard. Something must be instructing the system to
look for /boot.cfg instead of /images/ESX-5.0-x86_64/.
I can't really answer that, sorry. It's been a *long* time since I've
been that deep in PXE booting/TFTP, and I haven't done cobbler with
TFTP, and I haven't used either for ESX.
I suspect that something in the ESX process is looking for the boot.cfg.
My best guess is something in menu.
This might help:
http://www.routereflector.com/2014/01/unattended-vmware-esxi-installation-via-pxe-boot-and-kickstart/
Note these bits in particular:
# cat /mnt/boot.cfg | sed -e "s#/##g" -e "3s#^#prefix=esxi-5.1.0u1-1065491\n#"
> /tftpboot/pxe/esxi-5.1.0u1-1065491/boot.cfg
and
# vi /tftpboot/pxe/pxelinux.cfg/default
default menu.c32
prompt0
timeout300
menu title PXEBoot Menu
labellocal
menu label^0 - Boot from first hard drive
com32 chain.c32
append hd0
label1
menu label^1 - Install VMware ESXi 5.1.0u1
* kernel esxi**-**5.1**.**0u1**-**1065491**/**mboot**.**c32
append**-**c esxi**-**5.1**.**0u1**-**1065491**/**boot**.**cfg
ks**=**http**:**//172.31.30.1/ks/esxi-5.1.0u1.cfg*
Why would the cobbler templates not generate the boot.cfg in the proper
location if it is infact in the tftpboot directory and not in the distro
directory? I would imagine if you had more than one ESX distro you would then
have collisions on the boot.cfg. I think something else is at play here.
Also how do I get the system to properly copy all the boot files to the tftp
directory when running cobbler sync?
What happens right now when you run cobbler sync?
The top few lines of my output are:
task started: 2014-02-25_132124_sync
task started (id=Sync, time=Tue Feb 25 13:21:24 2014)
running pre-sync triggers
cleaning trees
removing: /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
removing: /var/lib/tftpboot/grub/efidefault
removing: /var/lib/tftpboot/grub/images
removing: /var/lib/tftpboot/s390x/profile_list
copying bootloaders
copying: /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 -> /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.0
copying: /usr/share/syslinux/menu.c32 -> /var/lib/tftpboot/menu.c32
copying: /usr/share/syslinux/memdisk -> /var/lib/tftpboot/memdisk
copying distros
copying images
But this is a non-production "I'm just playing with it" environment that
I started setting up last week, so I haven't really dug into it yet, and
since my soon to be future employer doesn't use it, it might get blown
away.
Regards,
Petro.
:wq
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