Provisioning a host using generic image fails with error Failed to chainload from any network interface in Red Hat Satellite 6
Issue
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Failed to provision a host while booting via Generic Image where the host boots up with iPXE firmware but fails to chainload the iPXE script from Satellite server.
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iPXE firmware always queries to wrong satellite server for chainloading the next stage.
iPXE 1.0.0+ (4e85b27) -- Open Source Network Boot Firmware -- http://ipxe.org Features: DNS HTTP iSCSI TFTP SRP AoE ELF MBOOT PXE bzImage Menu PXEXT Foreman Bootdisk: Generic image net0 is a vmxnet3 with MAC 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Configuring (net0 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX)........................................ ok http://old-satellite.example.com/unattended/iPXE?&mac=00%3AXX%3AXX%3AXX%3AXX%3A XX... No Such file or directory (http://ipxe.org/2d0c613b) Failed to chainload from any network interface
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Once chainloading completes the host is unable to fetch the kickstart and treeinfo file from Satellite server.
Environment
- Red Hat Satellite 6
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