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Operating Systems Solaris Solaris x86 installation using jumpstart does not local boot ( boot from hdd) Post 302547630 by tamitot on Tuesday 16th of August 2011 08:19:09 AM
Old 08-16-2011
one possible way is not to set the bios to boot from network but to choose the boot device on start up. most of x86 machines let you do this by pressing F12 after POST and presents you with a menu of possible boot devices.
 

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GRUB-BIOS-SETUP(3)					     Library Functions Manual						GRUB-BIOS-SETUP(3)

NAME
grub-bios-setup -- Set up images to boot from a device. SYNOPSIS
grub-bios-setup [-a | --allow-floppy] [-b | --boot-image=FILE] [-c | --core-image=FILE] [-d | --directory=DIR] [-f | --force] [-m | --device-map=FILE] [-s | --skip-fs-probe] [-v | --verbose] DEVICE DESCRIPTION
You should not normally run this program directly. Use grub-install instead. OPTIONS
--allow-floppy Make the device also bootable as a floppy. This option is the default for /dev/fdX devices. Some BIOSes will not boot images cre- ated with this option. --boot-image=FILE Use FILE as the boot image. The default value is boot.img. --core-image=FILE Use FILE as ther core image. The default value is core.img. --directory=DIR Use GRUB files in the directory DIR. The default value is /boot/grub. --force Install even if problems are detected. --device-map=FILE Use FILE as the device map. The default value is /boot/grub/device.map . --skip-fs-probe Do not probe DEVICE for filesystems. --verbose Print verbose messages. SEE ALSO
info grub Wed Feb 26 2014 GRUB-BIOS-SETUP(3)
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