[Spacewalk-list] Kickstarting Fedora 18 with SW 1.9

[Jon Miller]

I would try to catch the system before it reboots into the grub line
installed by koan and examine the options setup in the grub menu. My
initial testing involved manually playing with that grub entry until it
worked, then I turned to figure out which options I needed to pass to koan
to prevent the same issue. Again, for me I had to remove the "ROOT=" entry
from the grub config.

And when it comes to investigating what options are being passed to koan,
since it is a Python script, I personally would be tempted to just modify
the script to record the options being passed before it invokes
"app.main()". Try adding something like:
open('/tmp/koan', 'a').write("Koan called via: %s\n" % " ".join(sys.argv))

After that I'm not sure how to influence which options will get passed from
the Spacewalk UI.

-- Jon Miller


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:07 AM, Tomi Salmi <tomisalmi123 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> The initial kickstart works fine for me as well. This seems to be a
> specific issue with Koan. The grub boot entry does appear, and the system
> boots using it, but instead of starting the installation process, it just
> boots into the existing OS. I am using the web interface to initiate the
> rebuild, so I'm not sure what parameters are passed on to Koan. Any
> suggestions how to troubleshoot this?
>
> -Tomi
>
> On 9 April 2013 17:31, Jon Miller <jonebird at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FYI, I have successfully kickstarted new FC18 clients from my Spacewalk
>> 1.9 server. What else do you have for your boot options?
>>
>> The closest I've see to what you are describing is when I have used koan
>> to initiate a rebuild of an existing FC18 client. When I only used the
>> "--replace-self" option, the grub boot entry still had the root=UUID=XXX
>> entry and when I removed that, it initiated a kickstart vs. a OS boot. Now
>> when I want to perform a re-install with koan I add the additional option
>> of "--no-copy-default" along with "--replace-self".
>>
>> -- Jon Miller
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:32 AM, Tomi Salmi <tomisalmi123 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Re-provisioning a Fedora 18 system does not seem to work on Spacewalk
>>> 1.9. The system will reboot and boot with the kickstart option, but then it
>>> will proceed with loading the OS instead of the installer.
>>>
>>> Has anyone experienced the same?
>>>
>>> -Tomi
>>>
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