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 4d39cda22..e9993198e 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/add-on/statelite/rc.statelite
@@ -569,3 +569,7 @@ if grep --quiet --no-messages "Dummy resolv.conf" "$MNTDIR/etc/resolv.conf"; the
 /bin/cat /etc/resolv.conf > $MNTDIR/etc/resolv.conf
 fi
 
+# Copy the fake network interface configuration file to /etc/sysconfig/network to handle
+# the issue of reboot nfs-based statelite
+/bin/cp /tmp/ifcfg-* $MNTDIR/etc/sysconfig/network
+
diff --git a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
index e23820158..3c4e8c237 100755
--- a/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
+++ b/xCAT-server/share/xcat/netboot/sles/genimage
@@ -1014,6 +1014,11 @@ while ! ifconfig | grep inet; do
     sleep 1
     netstart \$IFACE
 done
+# Add a fake interface configuration file for the boot interface to skip the
+# ifdown of the interface during the reboot/shutdown to skip the fs broken of
+# nfs based file system
+echo "STARTMODE=nfsroot" > /tmp/ifcfg-\$IFACE
+
 ip addr add dev lo 127.0.0.1/8
 ip link set lo up
 cd /
@@ -1288,7 +1293,7 @@ EOMS
    close($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) {