>So you're suggesting, leaving the BIOS set to Net-boot, and leaving the
>netboot setup on the boot server but flipping pxegrub config back and
>forth? That could work.
Yes, but it still requires changes on the network install server and it
requires it to be running whenver you reboot.
(Though you could fail over to disk in that case through the BIOS)
>I'm still hoping for a method that will only need me to tweak and reboot
>the client.
Only with BMC support will that work.
>Is there a way to have the BIOS boot from disk, and then get the local
>Grub config to then start a PXE boot from the network? Then I could
>leave the config for both disk and network booting in the menu.lst file
>*on the client* and just teak the 'default choice' setting before rebooting.
No. You can switch to PXE mode when booting from disk; with a grub
image which includes your network driver you could boot from the network
but not using PXE. (I use that on one system wth PXE support)
It does require you to build you rown grub and requires grub to have support
for your ethernet hardware
The ipmitool command in question is "bootdev" as in:
ipmitool bootdev pxe
No guarantee it works and it does require a BMC.
Casper
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