Hi,
Foreman is missing a feature that my colleague is used to using with cobbler. This feature is the default boot pxe menu that cobbler setup to display a list of OS profiles with associated kickstarts. I would like to see a similar functionality with foreman. I know usage with foreman sorta mandates that users enter the system information first before PXE booting. However, there are some cases when this is undesirable. This would include:
- starting a linux recover console boot over PXE
- Booting to vendor firmware images
- Provisioning a OS without the system being part of foreman. (someone has a desktop or vmware guest where they want to "play with linux).
Cobbler was pretty good at doing this since it had profiles that were selectable via the default boot menu.
I have since then gone back and duplicated my cobbler default menu in the foreman default pxe menu but I consider that to be a hack since foreman has no knowledge of the updated default boot menu.
Is there a way to recreate a cobbler like default boot menu with a list of available OS "profiles"?
Corey Osman
corey@logicminds.biz
Green I.T and Datacenter Automation Specialist
> Hi,
>
> Foreman is missing a feature that my colleague is used to using with cobbler. This feature is the default boot pxe menu that cobbler setup to display a list of OS profiles with associated kickstarts. I would like to see a similar functionality with foreman. I know usage with foreman sorta mandates that users enter the system information first before PXE booting. However, there are some cases when this is undesirable. This would include:
>
> 1. starting a linux recover console boot over PXE
thats possible using the default pxe menu
> 2. Booting to vendor firmware images
missing
> 3. Provisioning a OS without the system being part of foreman. (someone has a desktop or vmware guest where they want to "play with linux).
Did you look at
http://theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/TemplateWriting#Hostgroup-based-rendering
?
it allows allows to create pxe menus based on your hostgroups, which I
hope is most of what you are looking for.
>
> Cobbler was pretty good at doing this since it had profiles that were selectable via the default boot menu.
>
> I have since then gone back and duplicated my cobbler default menu in the foreman default pxe menu but I consider that to be a hack since foreman has no knowledge of the updated default boot menu.
>
> Is there a way to recreate a cobbler like default boot menu with a list of available OS "profiles"?
see TemplateWriting - Foreman
Ohad
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On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Corey Osman wrote:
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> Corey Osman
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