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 the *grub* boot menu, alongside memtest86, > which would overwrite the MBR with all zero? That option, combined with > a h/w reset, could be used to cause a fresh install. > > Has such a thing been written? what is the package name? >
Attacking this from another direction you can get grub to create a network boot menu option. This way you can tell grub to simply netboot when you want it to. This URL has some details, looks like you might need to rebuild your grub package. http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~draheim/boot/grub-netboot.html Grub will need to support your network card. It has a fair few you basically add something like --enable-eepro100 to ./configure. Cheers, -- John http://www.inodes.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
