Stephen wrote:
> I think there are some other protocols, but im hazy on it.
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> as for adding it find a nic that supports pxe boot. (i think)
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> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Dazed_75 <
lthielster@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've built my second PXE boot server and wanted to test the various boots.
>> So far I have found only two of my machines that support PXE booting and I
>> do not wish to disturb them. I've tested 7 other machines that seem to have
>> no such ability. One of them shows in BIOS that you can include the LAN as
>> a boot device but it does not seem to use the PXE boot of the PXE server
>> that is giving it its IP address with DHCP. Since that works for another
>> machine plugged into the same switch, I conclude that it expects some other
>> protocol for booting from the net.
>>
>> 1) Does anyone know a way to ADD the ability to a machine to PXE boot from
>> the LAN (e.g. adding some ethernet card)?
>> 2) Are there network boot protocols other than PXE?
>>
>> --
>> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
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