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

[James Fidell]

David Mackintosh wrote:
> 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?

FWIW, I've used a system like this with one hosting company.  Their PXE
boot takes you into a menu that allows you to do a network-based
installation of various Linux or *BSD distributions.  It's quite cool.

James