Automatic Reboot during Manual Linux PXE Imaging
Hello! We have a DS6.9 server that's setup to be our PXE boot. Normally when machines boot, they connect to PXE, get the boot menu, but then just boot from the hard drive (unless F8 is pressed to bring up the menu).
When we want to put an image on a computer, we hit F8, choose a menu option that brings us to a Linux Preboot Environment, and we then use a script that consultants put together for us to download that image.
The problem we seem to be suddenly faced with is that if a computer already shows up in the Deployment Console, after about 30 seconds of being booted in the Linux PE, whatever we are doing is cancelled, and we see "Terminated. Rebooting." on the screen. However, if we first delete the computer out of DS, then PXE boot, at about 30 seconds after booting we see something along the lines of "The server instructed ADLAgent to wait."
Before this happened, we didn't see any message, and even if the computer was in the Console, we could still manually image using the process I described above. We're out of ideas on where to check for these settings or what to do -- does anyone have any advice?
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Sounds normal...
This sounds like normal behavior. When the agent checks in and sees that there is no work scheduled for it to do, it is supposed to automatically reboot and attempt to boot into your production OS. Is there a reason you aren't just scheduling an image job on the machines you want to image? The only other thing that I can suggest is to create a job called "Wait" and have a Wait task in Linux. This would prevent it from rebooting. But it almost seems like you are defeating the purpose of having a DS environment if you are doing everything manually.
Brian Hawver
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Yaskawa America, Inc.
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I can only agree
I can only agree with bhawver. there is nothing suspecious with the description. The reason your client reboots is that your DS server tells the client that there is nothing to do in the PXE environment and that the client should boot into production.
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Hi crdehaan, I suspect you
Hi crdehaan,
I suspect you need to put the script your consultants provided into a script task which you'll need to configure to run in Linux automation. If you then schedule this task on the destination computer it will reboot and automatically pick the Linux option from the PXE boot menu. From there it will download linux, start the ADLAgent and execute your script.
As suggested above, if you just press F8 without scheduling a task to run in automation when Linux downloads it will start the agent and see that there is no work todo. After that it will reboot and just cut you off from your command-line which you are probably frustratingly trying to use.
If you are still having problems (or indeed questions), post back with the script and we'll let you know how to best execute it.
Kind Regards,
ian./
Ian Atkin, Senior Developer for the ICT Support Team, Oxford University, UK
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