[et-mgmt-tools] Question about cobbler - variable substitution

[Rainer Duffner]

Am 04.12.2007 um 22:25 schrieb Michael DeHaan:

> Rainer Duffner wrote:
>
> Take a look in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ and see if you can find the  
> "encoded" file that matches the MAC address you entered. It should  
> be there. This is
> the file that the PXE boot process will request and use for system  
> configuration. Next, compare that with what you see in the system  
> BIOS to ensure that it actually matches up.
> It sounds like it's not matching up to me.
>> I assume I don't have to assign a fixed IP to every host on the  
>> PXE-network via dhcpd.conf?
>
> The TFTP/PXE stage that identifies your system by MAC address does  
> not rely on having a static MAC set.
> The order is encoded MAC, then encoded IP, then default. Except if  
> you are using IA64 arches (elilo), when you must have the IP -- it  
> doesn't do boot-by-MAC.
> You can add a -vv in your /etc/xinetd.d/tftp file to see a bit more  
> from TFTP in syslog.
>
> Hopefully that helps. It really sounds like the MAC addresses  
> aren't right to me, maybe a typo somewhere?
>


In the above /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg directory, there's only one file  
- "default", which produces said menu.

Is there anything else that has to be run in addition to "cobbler sync"?

I'm feeling I'm missing something, but I don't know what.

Thanks for your help so far.


cheers,
Rainer
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Rainer Duffner
CISSP, LPI, MCSE
rainer at ultra-secure.de