making the system bootable after installation

[Sam Vilain]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:58, Thomas Lange wrote;

  > Oooh. So you have to change your BIOS settings by hand, to boot from
  > ocal disk and not from network card.

If it's part of the standard BIOS, you might be able to do this by
fiddling with/imaging the NVRAM directly.  If it's elsewhere (some
other PXE NVRAM area) then it will probably be more difficult to find
out how to do that.

Surely it is possible to get the PXE bios to try the local disk first,
using network boot as a fallback, or set it up to only boot from the
network when a button is pushed on bootup?

Otherwise, you have to figure out some way to get your DHCP/etc server
to answer requests for a network boot after the machine is built with
some kind of "no, boot locally" response.
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