The 50 ibm 300pl's I'm working with don't allow for a boottime key input to force pxe, but they do have multiple startup sequences. Standard startup, automatic (wol) startup, and an error selection being one of those or network. So I have standard startup set to the HDD, with auto set to netboot - then I just wake the box with a magic packet and it starts unattended install... but after each reboot, they keep netbooting! Latest bios is on em of course. Makes no sense... and the only way I can fix it is to down the box before it can restart unattended, then power on and the standard startup sequence begins correctly. This is making the whole experience not quite so "unattended"!
tim said to use bpbatch --- whats that?
Is anyone familiar with Altiris Deployment Server? - it sucks... but is alot more automated, for a cost of course (uses mfM$!)
nice thing about that deployment server is that its pxe bootloader checks a database to see if that system is scheduled for an image/install. and if not boots local, would be nice to get this type of control for unattended.
just ideas, -sp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i was under the impression that most BIOS'es required an input via kb to boot from network.
not sure about IBM though...
see if you can make them boot from hd first, but get to boot from network when doing install only(ie once)
On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Steven Piercy wrote:
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 16:03:48 -0700 From: Steven Piercy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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!)
------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
/dev/null
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
