Alan Horn wrote:
Hi,
I know that some of this is going to be fairly hardware specific, but what
strategies do folks use for flipping boot order back to the primary
ide/scsi system disk after doing a pxeboot install ?
The way I do it right now is :
o Initially enable pxeboot in the bios (if not set)
o Reboot box, go back into bios, set boot order to NIC pxeboot before HDD
o Unattended kickstart install
o Catch install after final reboot and jump into bios to reset boot
order.
Obviously I'd like to do away with the last step to make it truly
unattended after the setup phase.
I'm new to this list, but why worry about changing the BIOS back? You
can edit the defaults file in your pxelinux.cfg directory and set the
default boot to be the localdisk:
default local
timeout 300
...
label local
localboot 0
label rhel4as
kernel rhel4as/vmlinuz
append initrd=rhel4as/initrd.img
ks=nfs:192.168.0.2:/export/ksfiles/rhel4as-ks.cfg
...
Now, if your machine reboots, it will automatically boot from the local
disk after a 30 second delay.
You should add a "local" option to your pxeboot.msg file to allow
someone at the console know they don't have to wait for the system to
timeout to boot locally.
Dave
Any ideas ?
Cheers,
Al
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