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Hi all, could use some help if you got a minute. I’ve set up a Foreman server to provision virtual machines (on hyper-v but I’m not utilizing the compute setup since I figure it’s not supported) and bare metal servers. So far for testing I’ve been setting up a test virtual machine to verify the functionality of the DHCP, TFTP, and provisioning process within my subnet I’ve created. So far everything works with the Debian preseed templates right out of the box but not the kickstart templates. I can’t quite rack my head around why though. I figure is there some extra preconfiguration step I must be missing somewhere?

I'm setting up a basic foreman vm for provisioning bare metal and virtual machines (these are on hyper-v which I know isn't the best supported by foreman but I figured I’m not using the compute functionality so should be fine, right?). So far when testing by booting up a test VM to try the dhcp, pxegrub2, and tftp functionality I have great success with the Debian Preseed default templates. Everything works just fine. But when I try the Kickstart default templates to install CentOS stream 10 the VMs fail to start and shutdown before I can even read what is displayed in the console. Is there some extra configuration involved with kickstart that I’m potentially glossing over?

First time I ever used a Debian 12 rescue disk to resize an over-provisioned home directory partition, and the whole thing just executes so flawlessly. The GUI guides you so ergonomically to the options you need (although it does kind of default to initial install and network config but once you realize what it’s doing you can just escape and bring you to the main menu). Also I never tried reducing the filesystem size on a partition before but it was on a single disk system with LVM on the third partition and the ext4 filesystem reduction was surprisingly easy with no issues that I barely believe. Honestly I just thought it was so cool.