diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Postage.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Postage.pm
index cfc7859b8..1a71b4df3 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Postage.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/perl/xCAT/Postage.pm
@@ -443,6 +443,12 @@ sub makescript {
   {
     push @scriptd, "setbootfromnet\n";
   }
+
+  # add setbootfromdisk if the nodesetstate is install and arch is ppc64
+  if (($nodesetstate) && ($nodesetstate eq "install") && ($arch eq "ppc64") ) {
+    push @scriptd, "setbootfromdisk\n";
+  }
+
   ###Please do not remove or modify this line of code!!! xcatdsklspost depends on it
   push @scriptd, "# postscripts-end-here\n";
 
diff --git a/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatconfig b/xCAT-server/sbin/xcatconfig
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/xCAT/postscripts/setbootfromdisk b/xCAT/postscripts/setbootfromdisk
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..700178813
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xCAT/postscripts/setbootfromdisk
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# IBM(c) 2010 EPL license http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+#(C)IBM Corp
+
+#
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+#
+#setbootfromdisk
+#   The script is used to set harddisk(sda) to be the default bootup devices
+#   on Redhat-family OSes with POWER system
+#
+#-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+OS=`uname`
+if [[ $OS = "Linux" ]]; then
+    if [[ $OSVER = fedora* ]] || [[ $OSVER = rhels5* ]] || [[ $OSVER = rhel6* ]] || [[ $OSVER=rhels6* ]] || [[ -f /etc/fedora-release ]] || [[ -f /etc/redhat-release ]]; then
+        if  [[ -f /usr/sbin/bootlist ]] ; then
+            # determine which harddisk should be the default one
+            # /dev/sda3 /boot ext4 rw,seclabel,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0
+            BOOTENTRY=`cat /proc/mounts |grep /boot`
+
+            if [[ -z $BOOTENTRY ]]; then
+                BOOTENTRY=`mount |grep " / "`
+            fi
+
+            BOOTDEVICE=`echo $BOOTENTRY | awk '{print $1}'`
+            if [[ -z $BOOTDEVICE ]]; then
+                logger -t xcat setbootfromdisk: cannot find the booting device
+            else
+                logger -t xcat setbootfromdisk: Setting $BOOTDEVICE to be the default bootup device
+                echo "setbootfromdisk: setting up $BOOTDEVICE as the default bootup device"
+                bootlist -m normal $BOOTDEVICE 
+                exit 0
+            fi
+        else 
+            logger -t xcat Could not find /usr/sbin/bootlist
+            echo "setbootfromdisk: could not find /usr/sbin/bootlist"
+            exit -1
+        fi
+    fi
+fi