[ovirt-users] PXE boot of oVirt Node 4.1

[Sandro Bonazzola]

Pavol, could you please write a page on ovirt.org website with this?

On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:04 PM, Pavol Brilla <pbrilla at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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_unpa
> cked_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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