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@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ user interface: - "cobbler add" should be distinguished from "edit" so as to not overwrite - GTK (or Web) UI for Cobbler ? - make sync have less output + - PXE menus would be interesting for default behavior. + Set local boot to the timeout default, show all profiles. + Depends on how many entries can be added... code cleanup: - an argument parsing overhaul is probably due diff --git a/cobbler.pod b/cobbler.pod index 675177e..e67aea9 100644 --- a/cobbler.pod +++ b/cobbler.pod @@ -297,6 +297,25 @@ Once imported, run a "cobbler list" to see what you've added. "Cobbler sync" must still be run after an import to get the system ready to provision what was just imported. +=head2 DEFAULT PXE BOOT BEHAVIOR + +What happens when PXE booting a system when cobbler has no record +of the system being booted? + +By default, cobbler will configure PXE to boot to the contents of +/etc/cobbler/default.pxe, which (if unmodified) will just fall through +to the local boot process. Administrators can modify this file if they +like to change that behavior. + +An easy way to specify a default cobbler profile to PXE boot is to +create a system named "default". This will cause /etc/cobbler/default.pxe +to be ignored. To restore the previous behavior do a "cobbler system remove" +on the "default" system. + +B<cobbler system add --name=default --profile=boot_this> + +B<cobbler system remove --name=default> + =head2 TWEAKING Enterprising users can edit the files in /var/lib/cobbler directly versus using the command line. The repair |