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

[Matt S Unix Administrator]

Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> Matt S Unix Administrator wrote:
> .. snip ...
>
> Allright, so I've got a pretty good prototype of pxelinux menus being
> generated from Cobbler now.   One small problem -- timeouts don't
> appear to count down at all -- or else, they just don't work --
> documentation is fairly lacking.    The following configuration file
> (which has been generated from cobbler), shows that it will "Automatic
> boot in X seconds", though after this time expires, nothing
> happens.... what I really /need/ to happen is for it fall through to
> local boot rather than hanging around on the menu screen.   Does
> anyone have any idea how to get this last bit working?    This might
> be my test hardware specifically, though I kind of doubt it.
>
> Here's the file...
>
> DEFAULT menu.c32
> PROMPT 0
> MENU TITLE Cobbler | http://cobbler.et.redhat.com
> TIMEOUT 200
> TOTALTIMEOUT 600
> ONTIMEOUT local
>
> LABEL local
>       MENU LABEL (local)
>       MENU DEFAULT
>       LOCALBOOT 0
>
> LABEL fc62895
>       kernel /images/fc62895/vmlinuz
>       MENU LABEL fc62895
>       append ksdevice=eth0 lang= text syslog=192.168.1.99:25150
> devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=16438 append 
> initrd=/images/fc62895/initrd.img
> ks=http://192.168.1.99/cobbler_track/kickstarts/fc62895/ks.cfg
>
>
> I've also tried "ONTIMEOUT LOCALBOOT 0" which also doesn't work, as
> well as leaving off the "ONTIMEOUT" bit and assuming the MENU DEFAULT
> would do the right thing.
>
> Provided I can't get this working, there's another decent way to make
> this happen, that is slightly less usable.  That's to set the DEFAULT
> to "local" in the first few lines of the file, and we enable "PROMPT
> 1".   Then the user has 20 or so seconds to type "menu" at the
> pxelinux "boot:" prompt, otherwise it would boot locally.  If they
> type "menu", they would get the menu.   It works, but it's not quite
> obvious.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to utilize timeouts and menu.c32 at the
> same time?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Michael
>
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I've had this same issue with the timeout, it never counts down.