Hi,

On Mon, 28.06.2010 at 13:52:45 -0600, Nick Bender <[email protected]> wrote:
> First the problem. Once a machine is automatically installed we want to
> change things so that it will boot from the hard drive. We have two
> possibilities.

 ;}

> The first is to arrange so that the machine will boot first from the network
> and then from the hard drive. Once the install succeeds remove the
> dhcpd.conf entry and allow the pxeboot to timeout with no response.
> Works fine with only a small delay for the timeout.

The downside of this is that it is (imho) mostly a manual process.

> The second possibility is to allow the machine to pxeboot but tell it to boot
> from the hard drive with the newly installed system.

This would work if the pxeboot could support this. pxelinux does
something like this. Maybe you want to take a look at it.


Kind regards,
--Toni++

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