diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/genimage b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/genimage
index ab9354ab8..4c434a867 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/genimage
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/ubuntu/genimage
@@ -1331,10 +1331,44 @@ exit 0
 EOF
    
    close($inifile);
+
+   #if "nonodestatus" specified,do not update the nodestatus 
+   system("mkdir -p /tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/tmp/");
+   open($inifile, ">","/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/tmp/updateflag");
+
+   print $inifile <<EOMS;
+#!/usr/bin/awk -f
+BEGIN {
+
+        xcatdhost = ARGV[1]
+        xcatiport = ARGV[2]
+
+
+        ns = "/inet/tcp/0/" xcatdhost "/" xcatiport
+        print "xCAT_xcatd" |& ns
+
+        while(1) {
+                ns |& getline
+
+                if(\$0 == "ready")
+                        print ARGV[3] |& ns
+                if(\$0 == "done")
+                        break
+        }
+
+        close(ns)
+
+        exit 0
+}
+
+EOMS
+   close($inifile);
+
    chmod(0755,"/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/usr/share/udhcpc/default.script");
 
    chmod(0755,"/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/init");
    chmod(0755,"/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/bin/netstart");
+   chmod(0755,"/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/tmp/updateflag");
    @filestoadd=();
    foreach (@ndrivers) {
      if (-f "$customdir/$_") {