strategies for changing boot order

[Dave Mack]

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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