hi all,

we have hosts that we want to pxeboot first, always. with uefi, anaconda/kickstart always set the freshly installed disk as first bootdevice and there seems to be no way to disable this behaviour.

the rhel7 docs describe a “leavebootorder” option
(https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/installation_guide/sect-kickstart-syntax)

but it doesn’t “leave [the] boot order”, it still (as described in the doc) puts the new one on top. it leaves other existing boot entries alone, in same order; but inserting a new entry on top effectively changes the order, not sure what they were smoking when they came up that option name….

does anyone have any tips/tricks to keep hosts booting with pxe first
(besides parsing efibootmgr output and modifying the bootorder after an install).

thanks,

stijn