On 10/09/2007 08:36 AM, Kent West wrote: > 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? >> >> 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.
A while back for the VMWare appliance competition, I created a pxelinux installer / rescue VM using the same technology and some of the tricks we use in our production data center installers (it does not have a debian installer, I know..). You can set up a short timeout of pxelinux to boot from hard disk by default, if there is no option chosen from the menu. In the case of this VM, it waits forever, but if you just hit ENTER, it boots from disk. Feel free to grab it and rip apart the pxelinux or any other configurations - thought this might inspire a few PXE ideas. http://pbandjelly.net/vmware_challenge/ -- Kind Regards, Michael Shuler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
