[syslinux] How to avoid the network reinstall in pxelinux?

[Bernd Blaauw]

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