Here's a guide outlining how to perform hardware RAID actions (e.g. wipe the RAID configuration, create a new RAID-1 virtual disk etc) on a Dell PowerEdge server (Perc i810) during a CentOS kickstart installation. For this example we are building this for CentOS 7.2, however the…
It appears that when using pulp (http://www.pulpproject.org/) to synchronise and manage yum repositories, pulp categorises a repository with the following in mind * OS Major Release Number (E.g. CentOS 7) * OS Minor Release number (e.g. CentOS 7.2) * These are stored under the release number, e.…
I went along to the first Sydney Puppet User Group meetup for 2016. Below are some notes. Masterless Puppet Richard Tomkinson - Cloudten Industries "Using AWS Buckets and IAM roles" Very interesting talk. Went through a brief case study, outlining the things which worked well, the challenges and…
In my cobbler environment, after modifying a working kickstart I get the following error when trying to use it dracut-initqueue[987]: Warning: no suitable images dracut-initqueue[987]: Warning: could not boot If (from another machine) I curl http://cobbler-server/cblr/svc/op/ks/system/newsystem01 I get the below output…
Some useful things to try / consider when troubleshooting ipxe errors General Tips * The ipxe error code contains a URL. Use it! Often not too helpful, but it will link to source code and you can perhaps trace through to understand why the error code is generated (check evaluations, if statements…