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harvester can use pxe boot for sure, can you provide more specific detail about your environment?

sure, I have the node installing from pxe just fine. my problem is that after install the node will reboot (as is normal) and then pxe boot to the installer again (and again)

can you check this node's boot order? maybe network card has overrided hard drive?

network card does take priority, I was trying to get the node booted without manual intervention (selecting pxe boot from bios)

there are two ways that openstack ironic boots servers. One is direct, where it will boot the 'ironic python agent (installer) and write a disk image to disk, it'll do this just once then boot from disk. I don't think this fit's harvesters model til that pull request I linked is available (provides disk images). The other is ramdisk, this method always boots the pxe image, this half fits harvesters model. but since it's always boots the pxe image it'll constantly reinstall.

Just came across this thread … If I recall correctly, Ironic will use something like

ipmitool chassis bootdev pxe

to set the one-time boot device for the target machine. The boot order in BIOS is better to keep the “hard drive” above “nic” so that after the installation is completed, the machine can boot from the disk without intervention. Regarding the first way for ironic to boot servers, Harvester installation will have an “install mode” in the upcoming release. It basically streams the image and writes it to the disk. Seems a perfect fit.

ya, I'm watching that pull request, can't wait to have a qcow2 file to install instead