What we (CERN ATLAS Online) do is to have a PXE default config that points
back to localboot, and is changed for the specific PC when you want to
reinstall. The %postboot of the kickstart then has to contain a call to a CGI
(e.g. using wget) that resets the PXE to the default. The same kind of
Steven Timm a écrit :
The trick that Rocks uses is to have a boot order of (hard disk, pxe)
and then when you want to reinstall, change two bytes in the
boot sector to make the hard disk unbootable and it will fall through
to a PXE boot only at that time.
What worker node installs at Fermilab
If you have Dell Servers there is an option that you can change through
iDrac interface that is Boot once. You check Boot once with PXE and then
reboot the machine. It will boot from PXE only one time so when rebooting
will go throught the HD.
Regards
2011/10/18 Yannick Perret yper...@in2p3.fr
Hello All,
I ran into another issue with my PXE build out. I searched the net and
found many people with the same issue, but there was either no response
or their solution would not work for my needs (requiring access to
software I don't have). What I am after with this is a completely
unmanaged
The trick that Rocks uses is to have a boot order of (hard disk, pxe)
and then when you want to reinstall, change two bytes in the
boot sector to make the hard disk unbootable and it will fall through
to a PXE boot only at that time.
What worker node installs at Fermilab do is to have a DHCP
On 10/17/2011 06:26 PM, Steven Timm wrote:
The trick that Rocks uses is to have a boot order of (hard disk, pxe)
and then when you want to reinstall, change two bytes in the
boot sector to make the hard disk unbootable and it will fall through
to a PXE boot only at that time.
That is actually
