Can you alter the BIOS config to not boot off local disk? On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Alex Aminoff <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We need a MBR that reboots the machine. Surely this must exist? > > Our systems boot from the network. If, after a power outage say, that does > not work, the BIOS goes on to boot from the local HD. Since the local HD > has no OS on it, the boot sequence endsand the machine sits forever waiting > for manual intervention. > > If the local HD had a MBR that caused the boot process to start over > again, then our machines would retry network booting forever, until the > network boot servers (and all switches along the path to them) were up > again. > > I have googled extensively for this, I have found assembly source code for > the standard Windows MBR, and I think I have seen explanations on how to > get a machine to reboot in assembly, so I may attempt to compile my own bit > of code, but it seems likely that someone else has done this before. > > Thanks, > - Alex > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa >
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