[Spacewalk-list] PXE booting a VMWare server

[Scott Rakow]

So, some deeper Googling came up with the solution, as it looks like someone
had the same problem before. I had to change a line in the
/etc/cobbler/settings file from the c-name to the IP address.

server: *host_name*

to

server: *ip.address.of.host*

With out this it would load the stage 2, format the file systems, then get
lost. The boot sector was already written to, so to get it to PXE again, it
had to be "rescued" and a dd done to the 1st 512 (dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1).

Also Mark and Ryan, my systems show up as VMWare virtual guests in
Spacewalk, not physical servers.

Scott

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Scott Rakow <srr.list at gmail.com> wrote:

> Still been playing around with this and I still can't get it to work
> correctly. I get through the stage 2, then get the error message:
>
> Unable to read package metadata. This may be due to a missing repodata
> directory. Please ensure that your install tree has been correctly
> generated. Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository:
> anaconda-base-201004270002.x86_64. Please verify its path and try again.
>
> I have been able to use this to build physical servers, so what would the
> difference be?
>
> Scott
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Mark Watts <m.watts at linux-corner.info>wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 6 Jun 2011 14:13:59 -0700, "Kennedy, Ryan" <rkennedy at paml.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Interesting... this is true but only for the hosts I have kickstarted
>> > since upgrading from Spacewalk 0.6 to 1.4.  I wondered why they were
>> > showing with the white icon instead of the usual gray/blue one.
>> >
>> > Now I have a question... how do I get previously kickstarted/managed
>> hosts
>> > (all VMware guest VMs mind you) to show up as virtual systems?  Not that
>> it
>> > makes much of a difference but this could prove to be a point of
>> confusion
>> > for some folks in my organization.
>>
>>
>> I've started at Spacewalk 1.3 so I'm not sure when this feature came in.
>>
>> I'd suspect that running a "rhn-profile-sync" would update such things.
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>> --
>> Mark Watts BSc RHCE
>> http://www.linux-corner.info/
>>
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