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List:       npaci-rocks-discussion
Subject:    Re: [Rocks-Discuss]PXE node installation
From:       Wim Glassee <wim.glassee () ua ! ac ! be>
Date:       2004-09-28 13:19:31
Message-ID: 415964E3.9060402 () ua ! ac ! be
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I'll try the F12 trick,

Thanks Philip

Philip Papadopoulos wrote:

> You should set the boot order to cd, hd, pxe. You need to force pxe the first time. \
> Often hitting f12 at the opportune moment will force pxe with chaning the boot \
> order in bios. 
> If you have a really old machine that has no f12 option (sometimes you hit esc and \
> then f12) then I would suggest a cd-based install for your compute nodes. 
> We let the compute nodes make the decision on whether to install or reboot. One \
> could make the server smarter in terms of whether to serve an install kernel or a \
> boot kernel, but from our view the complexity of keeping this kind of state \
> outweighs it's real utility. 
> -p
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wim Glassee <wim.glassee@ua.ac.be>
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:45:43 
> To:npaci-rocks-discussion@sdsc.edu
> Subject: [Rocks-Discuss]PXE node installation
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I install my nodes over the network, which is neat. However, I have to 
> stay with the node until it reboots after installation to change the 
> boot sequence in the bios. If I don't it just reinstalls on me.
> 
> Is this policy or is something going wrong.
> 
> I was wondering if it would be possible to keep the nodes on PXE boot 
> the whole time and have the server decide whether the node is allowed to 
> boot from hd or reinstall, that way you wouldn't have to touch the bios 
> again.
> 
> Wim
> 
> 
> Sent via BlackBerry - a service from AT&T Wireless.
> 
> 
> 


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