Actually, some nics have an on-board eeprom to extend BIOS.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Eric Shubert <
ejs@shubes.net> wrote:
> I believe some pci nics do pxe boot. I think I have one, which is a
> trendnet gig-e card from Fry's ($13 or so), but I'm not positive. I
> think the bios needs to support pxe as well as the card.
>
> Stephen wrote:
> > I think there are some other protocols, but im hazy on it.
> >
> > as for adding it find a nic that supports pxe boot. (i think)
> >
> > 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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