Sid Arth wrote:
Is it possible to "dual boot" into either normal windows (booting from
the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into
something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing.
Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it.
Most modern BIOSes can boot from a network PXE server. What you'd do is
configure your BIOS to boot first from the PXE server, and then if that
process fails or is canceled with a user's keypress, it was fail-over to
boot from the hard drive (or CDROM, or USB device, etc etc etc) and
thereby start up your other OS.
I was wondering if there is something where you could pick which OS you
want to load, and if you pick the linux one, it will boot off a server
on my network.
Once the BIOS finds the PXE server and starts booting from it, I believe
you can have the PXE serve out whatever you want, such as the startup of
a Debian boot, or the normally earlier stage of GRUB menu, which would
give your users the ability to pick-and-choose from a menu which OS they
want to load.
Again, I haven't done this, so don't know the specifics of doing it, but
I am confident it can be done.
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Kent
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