Maybe I'm unclear on the exact question you're asking so I'll answer the one I
think you're asking, but I'd have thought that a better way to do a reinstall
of a client is to set it to boot off the hard-disk first and then have netboot
as the second boot device. Then, one can tell a client to reinstall itself by
erasing the master boot record with dd e.g.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
and then rebooting the node. The client will always attempt to boot from local
disk first if there's an installed Linux system including after a reinstall.
This method avoids going through the bootserver and also has the added advantge
of reinstalling any clients on the network that eat their own hard-disks
automatically.
If you have a blank or non-working system, then you should set the NIC as the
first boot device but set it back afterwards.
Hope that was relevant
Dominik
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:10:23 +0200
Rudy Gevaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using netboot to install a system using FAI. Now what are the
> best strategies to reboot the system.
>
> I use
> fai-chboot -IBv hostname
>
> to install a client. This works. Then the install system disables
> that entrie, so on the next boot the client boots from the localdist.
>
> But the documentation says that the first bootdevice should be the
> NIC, and the second the hard disk. Thus when my client reboots after
> install it complains about not begin able to find the install kernel.
>
> A way around the problem is set netboot to boot from localhost.
>
> Am I missing anything here? Or is this the way to do it?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Rudy
>
