[ovirt-users] PXE boot of oVirt Node 4.1

[Pavol Brilla]

Hi

Information on ovirt.org is about old node, from oVirt 4.0 we have
NextGeneration Node (NGN). I don't  use cobbler, but for PXE I can provide
what worked for me.
Take iso from: http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-4.1/iso/ovirt-node-
ng-installer/, unpack it ( simple mount -o loop; cp -r ):

pxelinux.cfg/ovirt-node.menu:
...
LABEL ovirt NGN
        KERNEL http://websrv/your_unpacked_iso/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
        APPEND initrd=http://websrv/your_unpacked_iso/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
inst.stage2=http://websrv/your_unpacked_iso/ inst.ks=http://websrv/your_
unpacked_iso/my.ks
        ipappend 2


Kickstart file to automate a lot of tasks for me "my.ks":
​​install
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
rootpw  --plaintext 123
network --bootproto=dhcp
timezone --utc Europe/Prague
firewall --service=ssh

liveimg --url=http://websrv/your_unpacked_iso/ovirt-node-ng-
image.squashfs.img

# partitioning - nuke and start fresh
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
autopart --type=thinp
bootloader --location=mbr

reboot

%post --erroronfail
imgbase layout --init
%end


Basically liveimg --url ... & autopart & %post part should be enough for
interactive install.
I hope I made it at least a little bit clearer.

​
-- 
Pavol Brilla

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 5:41 PM, Christopher Young <mexigabacho at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've been wondering the same.  In particular, I use cobbler for system
> provisioning, so would love to have some details to help me implement
> this.
>
> On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 10:49 AM, Latchezar Filtchev <Latcho at aubg.bg>
> wrote:
> > Hello oVirt-ers,
> >
> >
> >
> > Did someone was able to install oVirt node 4.1 -
> > ovirt-node-ng-installer-ovirt-4.1-2017051704.iso via pxe/tftp boot?
> >
> >
> >
> > This works http://www.ovirt.org/develop/projects/node/pxe/ for oVirt 3.4
> >
> > When using the same approach for oVirt 4.0 and oVirt 4.1 the computer
> hangs.
> >
> > Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Latcho
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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