[syslinux] How to avoid the network reinstall in pxelinux?
Bernd Blaauw
bblaauw at home.nl
Sat Jun 9 05:11:28 PDT 2007
Eric Zhang schreef:
> Hi, Brandon:
>
> Thank you for your suggestion but maybe this cannot reach my expect.
>
> In your way, the client machine will boot from local harddisk after
> finished installation, this is correct but, I should go to select
> "network boot" at the first time in client machine, this is not what I
> expected because I have too many client nodes and I haven't a KVM. :(
>
> My requirement is:
>
> First, the boot order in my BIOS is 1.network 2.local harddisk ......
>
> Then, the client machine boots from network and then install the
> Linux automatically -- I just need to press the power button on every
> client machine then go away.
>
> At last, When the client machine finished installation, it will boot
> from local harddisk while not from network.
>
> Any ideas? :)
>
Maybe http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~gmurali/gui/index.html
would help you.
Without changing BIOS parameters like boot order at some point (mess
around with changing CMOS bits/bytes?),
system will continue to boot from network (PXE), which isn't necessarily
harmfull.
Once PXE boot occurred you can have a menu (or COM32 program) that
checks your local harddisk and decides to go install,
or to do some kind of Localboot (chain.c32?).
Bernd
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