[Infrastructures] Installation using PXEboot but not booting system with DHCP

[David A. Ulevitch]

Infrastructure Folks,

Here's a question I've had for a while that I was reminded of by the  
DHCP question posed to the list.

I PXEBoot for installation but then I want to boot from the hard disk  
afterwards.

In a BIOS I can set a boot order of "1: Hard Disk, 2: PXE" but that  
only works when the hard disk is empty and has no MBR setup.  As soon  
as installation completes and it reboots, the PXEboot process starts  
up all over again.

I have a system that modifies the dhcpd.conf to take a mac address  
out of the PXEboot group but that seems like a pain and perhaps the  
wrong way about it.

How do people install with PXEboot but then boot off the hard drive  
in subsequent reboots.  Different network?  Special BIOS tricks?

A related question, how do you then PXEboot in the future if you want  
to reinstall a box that has an already working disk (but a programmer  
hosed, for example)?

Hopefully this is on-topic for this list.  I know it's certainly a  
topic list members have experience with...

Thanks,
David Ulevitch