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===== Installing New ARM Machines =====
This procedure should be followed when installing ARM type machines with cobbler.
The reason for doing so is since cobbler doesn't support installing using uefi, we will need to create a menuentry in grub.conf with the required settings  

==== Step 1: Add those setting to the relevant group_vars machines file (for example ceph-sepia-secrets/ansible/inventory/group_vars/confusa.yml) ====

   dhcp_next_server: 172.21.0.11
   dhcp_filename: "/aarch64/grubaa64.efi"

And run the dhcp ansible role 


==== Step 2: Update grub.conf and create the menuentry ====

Add Menuentry to /var/lib/tftpboot/aarch64/grub.conf with the relevant OS type/version settings that you want to install your machines with

For example:
        set timeout=20
        menuentry 'CentOS9-arm' {
        linux images/pxeboot/vmlinuz ip=dhcp inst.repo=http://172.21.0.11/cobbler/ks_mirror/CentOS-9.stream-aarch64 ro inst.ks=http://172.21.0.11/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/CentOS-8.5-x86_64
        initrd images/pxeboot/initrd.img }

*   Sometimes we will need to first install one machine without a kickstart file and then create a new kickstart to fit the installation we want to do for the rest of the machines

*   We can add our new kickstart file to /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts and the set one of the cobbler profile to use it so that we will be able to use it in our installation as we see (in the example above we set it to the CentOS-8.5-x86_64 profile)

==== Step 3: Downloading the boot files (Can be found in the installation image) ====

Add the vmlinuz & initrd.img(RHEL Distro's) / linux & initrd.gz(Debian Distro's) to /var/lib/tftpboot/aarch64/images/pxeboot/


==== Step 4: Boot your machine to PXE boot And finish the installation ====

Boot to PXE boot, choose the relevant entry you created in Step 2 and finish the installation