strategies for changing boot order

[James Harrison]

I use NFS  for installs.

In the %post an installing machine creates a flag in the form of the NICs MAC
address back on the NFS server (using touch).

The NFS server has a custom cron script that looks for these flags and deletes
the host entry from the dhcp config.


--- Alan Horn <ahorn at geminimobile.com> 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
> 
> 
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