Dear Lazy Web,
I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a
lot of round trips like this:
1. enter bios setup, disable disk boot
2. netboot and install Linux, when that reboots
3. notice the reboot, hit DEL, enable disk boot
4. shiny new linux boots, not perfect, figure
Hi Peter,
have you tried install-mbr ?
eg:
install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/hda
Quoting Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dear Lazy Web,
I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a
lot of round trips like this:
1. enter bios setup, disable disk boot
2. netboot
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:58:21AM +1100, Peter Miller wrote:
The bios doesn't have a Press F12 to enter boot menu which would be
particularly useful, because I could then leave disk boot enabled.
So, dear reader, if you have got this far, how hard is it to add a
Whack Master Boot Record to
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 09:58 +1100, Peter Miller wrote:
Dear Lazy Web,
I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a
lot of round trips like this:
1. enter bios setup, disable disk boot
2. netboot and install Linux, when that reboots
3. notice the reboot, hit DEL,
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:58:21AM +1100, Peter Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Dear Lazy Web,
[snip]
So, dear reader, if you have got this far, how hard is it to add a
Whack Master Boot Record to the *grub* boot menu, alongside memtest86,
which would overwrite the MBR with all zero?
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Lazy Web,
I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a
lot of round trips like this:
If you don't need to test directly on your hardware you could run the
PXE install in a VM with either
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 12:40 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a
lot of round trips like this:
If you don't need to test directly on your hardware you could run the
PXE install in a VM with either VMware or KVM. I've done
