On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Nick Bender <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working on a new version of the fully automated installation routine > that I had developed for 4.4. One problem that people have identified > using a PXE based install is that it's possible to get in a loop where > you PXE boot and do the install and then restart and get back to the > PXE boot routine and end up repeatedly installing. > > I'm wondering if a way around that is for the install routine to mount > the target drive and check to see if the install has already been done. > If it has been done then go ahead and boot from that device. So the > question is can the ramdisk kernel cause the machine to boot from > a device without going through the bios? Something like running > boot(8) from a running system...
The PXE boot loader is capable of loading kernels from disk IIRC. So change the default to disk, and have it fall back on netboot.
