Steven,
I am happily using PXELINUX, there is an option to drop straight out of the
menu if either caps lock or shift lock are not engaged, coupled with that I
have a local disk boot set as the default.
This does mean that you have to type a 'magic word' to launch the install,
but that has the upside of easilly allowing a choice of boot images for
testing - for instance I have one type of machine that refuses to work with
the PXE stack in place so I had to build an image of the normal boot disk
and run that from the network boot.
I have copied my default file below so that you can see what I mean. The
message files refered to are just Splash screens that welcome you to the
school network (and explicitly forbid hacking :-) )
This file is a bit out of date, I'm not at work this week, but I launch the
linux boot disk in exactly the same way with just another line at the bottom
in the same format
Hope that helps
Kevin Lawry
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pxelinux.cfg\default
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# Perform a local boot by default
default local
# Always prompt
prompt 0
F1 help.msg
# Display the bootup message
display pxeboot.msg
# Boot automatically after 30 seconds
timeout 300
label local
localboot 0
# Some entries have been duplicated because labels are case sensitive and
I'm lazy
label inst
kernel memdisk
append initrd=undis3c.img keeppxe
label INST
kernel memdisk
append initrd=undis3c.img keeppxe
# Blue is the keyword to launch the image for the blue boxes (surprise)
# Blue boxes are incompatible with undis stack & so need their own network
drivers, hence the lack
# of the keeppxe directive, we want to take control of the stack ourselves
label blue
kernel memdisk
append initrd=blue2.img
label BLUE
kernel memdisk
append initrd=blue2.img
# Ergo disk is set up with a ghost client to allow multicast ghosting of
systems - set up ghost server first
label ERGO
kernel memdisk
append initrd=ergoensis.img
label ergo
kernel memdisk
append initrd=ergoensis.img
label TEST
kernel memdisk
append initrd=undis3new.img keeppxe
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File ends
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven
Piercy
Sent: 03 August 2004 00:04
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Unattended] pxe boot/install control
What are the rest of ya's using for bootup control on systems. All my
ibm boxes like to just keep booting pxe and re-running the install over
and over again (btw... im using tftp'd pxelinux). I'd really hate to
have to revert back to our old deployment stuff (Altiris) for this
functionallity. I was hoping to leave that in the dust.
Any ideas?
(I had though of either scripting mods to dhcp.conf or the the tftp root
defaults file for control... but that doesn't seem feasable. Dont want
dhcpd to restart everytime I run a deploy... and well.. the tftp
defaults thing might work... just haven't tried. I suppose the best way
would be to add a db backend to track and control deploys - but thats
alot of extra work!)
also, anyone using pxe services (linux please) other than
syslinux/pxelinux? or what pxe server/package? (im getting dizzy from
all the pxe projects online now!)
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