[et-mgmt-tools] Cobbler idea: PXE boot profile menu

[David Mackintosh]

I was about to write some wrappers to do this, but it occurs to me that
it might be easier to do inside cobbler itself.

How about instead of just having pxelinux.cfg/default kick straight into
a hard disk boot (which is a nice, safe default) it pops up a list of the
profiles it knows about, and will accept those names at the prompt?

This would let you do one-time installs without having to generate
a cobbler section for it.

The pxelinux.cfg/default file would then look like

default local
display pxelinux-default.msg
timeout 100
prompt 1

label local
    localboot 0

label SLES-10-std
    kernel /images/SLES-10/vmlinuz
    append lang ksdevice=eth0 text devfs=nomount $OTHER-THINGS

[...]

I would suspect for most sites there are only going to be a few profiles,
but it probably wouldn't be too hard to write the piece which generates
pxelinux-default.msg to put the profiles into columns for easier display.

It would probably be simplest to do this inside cobbler rather than
writing a bolt-on which figures all this out.

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