strategies for changing boot order

[Alan Horn]

Well yes.. but then the system will always attempt to pxeboot. So either 
you're going to then disable the dhcp server for that nic, or physically 
unplug it, or some other form of intervention ?

The motherboards I use also have two onboard NICs, so I can certainly test 
out the same methods you're using.

Ideally, I'd like to flip the bios boot order _from_ the %post phase, but 
I'm not sure how doable or portable any method like this would be.

I'd love more details though. Thanks for the response !

Cheers,

Al


 On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, John Monaco wrote:

>Alan,
>
>     We've been using a motherboard which has two on board NICs. We set 
>the secondary port for PXE enabled in the BIOS, and have it at the top 
>of the BIOS boot list. This works out pretty well for us.
>
>     If you need me to go into further details about this strategy, 
>please let me know.
>
>         Sincerely,
>
>         John S. Monaco
>
>         System Administrator & "Linux Dude"
>         TI WW MAKE IT
>         Infrastructure System Engineering and Administration
>         E-mail: xjmonaco at ti.com
>         Phone:  (214) 567-5831
>
>
>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.
>> 
>> Any ideas ?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Al
>> 
>> 
>> _______________________________________________
>> Kickstart-list mailing list
>> Kickstart-list at redhat.com
>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
>> 
>
>_______________________________________________
>Kickstart-list mailing list
>Kickstart-list at redhat.com
>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
>