diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite
index 373b70ba1..f9696b3e7 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite
@@ -539,3 +539,7 @@ ResolveLinks
 #cp -r -a ${DEFAULT}/* /.snapshot/tmpfs/
 # foo
 
+# Copy the fake network interface configuration file to /etc/sysconfig/network to handle
+# the issue of reboot nfs-based statelite
+/bin/cp /tmp/ifcfg-* $MNTDIR/etc/sysconfig/network
+
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
index 7d76d6371..696abccd1 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
@@ -990,6 +990,11 @@ while ! ifconfig | grep inet; do
     sleep 1
     netstart \$IFACE
 done
+# Add a fake interface configuration file for the boot interface to skip the
+# ifdown of the interface during the reboot/shutdown to skip the fs broken of
+# nfs based file system
+echo "STARTMODE=nfsroot" > /tmp/ifcfg-\$IFACE
+
 ip addr add dev lo 127.0.0.1/8
 ip link set lo up
 cd /
@@ -1253,7 +1258,7 @@ EOMS
    close($inifile);
    open($inifile,">"."/tmp/xcatinitrd.$$/bin/netstart");
    print $inifile "#!/bin/bash \n";
-   print $inifile "dhcpcd \${1}\n";
+   print $inifile "dhcpcd \${1} -p\n";
 
    #-- Bring other NICs up in /bin/netstart in initrd for NIC failover
    foreach (split /,/,$othernics) {