<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Adam Rosenwald wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:486A1D64.8070305@gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> Tom Brown wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:486A19E0.8010103@ng23.net" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite">OK. Something is definitely missing here. Notice how (<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/kickstart/">http://www.redhat.com/magazine/024oct06/features/kickstart/</a>) GRUB contains options for setting the IP address, netmask, and gateway for the system you intend to boot. These arguments are /*not*/ set in /your/ grub configuration. As to why they are not, either you didn't specify them during your cobbler system provisioning OR there is some kind of a bug in koan's 'reprovision' logic. Likely the former. Please double check that you specified cobbler .... --ip=X --subnet=Y --gateway=Z ... in your provision command. </blockquote> # cobbler system report --name=xxxxxx system : xxxxxx profile : RHEL4-u5-i386-prd kernel options : {} kickstart : <<inherit>> ks metadata : {'nameserver': '10.xxx.xxx.117'} netboot enabled? : True owners : ['admin'] server : <<inherit>> virt cpus : <<inherit>> virt file size : <<inherit>> virt path : <<inherit>> virt ram : <<inherit>> virt type : <<inherit>> interface : intf0 mac address : 00:13:72:69:95:7E ip address : 10.xxx.xxx.19 hostname : xxxxxx gateway : 10.xxx.xxx.253 subnet : 255.255.254.0 virt bridge : dhcp tag : that seems fine to me? and the koan version on the client # rpm -qa | grep koan koan-1.0.0-1.el4 thanks for any further info </blockquote> OK... good. If you could try to do so, please reprovision your system with the following amendment: <ul> <li>cobbler ... --kopts='ip=10.xxx.xxx.19 netmask=255.255.254.0 gateway=10.xxx.xxx.253 dns=10.xxx.xxx.117' ...</li> </ul> Resync and see if the new grub file installed after koaning looks the part. -A. </blockquote> Sorry. You could have also overridden the kernel options in koan itself: <ul> <li>koan ... --kopts='ip=10.xxx.xxx.19 netmask=255.255.254.0 gateway=10.xxx.xxx.253 dns=10.xxx.xxx.117'</li> </ul> Basically koan doesn't make use of the cobbler's own --ip, --gateway, --subnet variables when interfacing with grubby to create the grub config file; rather it only makes use of --kopts. This is rather nonintuitive, and it's difficult for me to think of a situation where one is attempting to reprovision (via koan --replace-self) a system, yet not want import those cobbler dictionary values (ip, subnet, etc.) into grub kernel arguments. Then, there is the problem of precedence: do --ip, --subnet, etc. override --kopts='ip=... netmask=...' if both are declared? Or vice versa? This is a policy decision which Michael shouldn't have to worry about enforcing. Rather, it may be more relevant to update the cobbler wiki under 'koan replace-self procedure'. -A. <blockquote cite="mid:486A1D64.8070305@gmail.com" type="cite"> <blockquote cite="mid:486A19E0.8010103@ng23.net" type="cite"> _______________________________________________ et-mgmt-tools mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com">et-mgmt-tools@redhat.com</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools</a> </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html>