Anas Nashif wrote:

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As part of my auto-install I have a <chroot-scripts> script which notifies a server to remove the PXE boot file from the tftp server (that way, next time I boot the new machine, it won't try to run the install again). The chroot-script is the following:

A normal boot with dhcp enabled will not trigger a PXE install, why are you PXE booting your machine after the initial install?

It will reuse the same dhcp configuration it got for the installation, so it restarts installation. This is a well known problem with autoinstallation in general.

Ahhh. On my servers I specifically select a one-time network boot (I press F12) to do the PXE install, after that first install the server boots from local disk (automatically, no intervention). If your machines don't let you do the one-time network boot then yes that would be a pain :-( Fraser