PXE booting

[Stephen]

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 at 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?
>
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