On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:41:21AM -0800, Dave Mack wrote: > > 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: This was what I suggested in my mail, but it does add network overhead and means that if you had 100 hosts relying on your pxe server and it failed after a mass kernel patch (+ reboot)! I would rather rely on less points of failure by booting BIOS -> hdd. The cost of this is a one-off powerdown, and if you are keeping up with kernel revisions this shouldn't be too long to wait? Ben
