If I understand right, you want the boot to hard disk to fail, and then the machine should try to boot from the network?
Hmm... Maybe it might be possible to write the boot sector of the hard disk with the Intel boot agent image, so it actually DOES boot from the hard disk, but starts up the PXE code anyway.
Or maybe a little bit of code that just jumps to the rom address for the network card.
This is all hypothetical, and it might not even work for non-Intel based NICs.
Also, there is that boot disk image that I love talking about, that allows you to boot from a cd-rom drive, even if your bios doesn't support it. That might help if your installation is on CD. (It might also have an option for network boot in it, it's been a while).
BTW: I'm on list.
----- Forwarded by Matt Fries/cbca on 02/15/2005 02:41 PM -----
| Maurice Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/15/2005 02:24 PM
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To: [email protected] cc: Subject: Re: [Unattended] howto trash xp |
hi,
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 05:13:05PM +0000, Hugo Monteiro wrote:
> I'd like to know if there's a simple way of trashing a prefectly good
> installation of XP, in such a way that in the next boot, if the client
> is configured to boot from the lan, it starts a brand new unattended
> install.
I would guess, to make the disk unbootable in a way the bios can
recognize, means overwriting the last to bytes of the MBR which should
be 0x55 0xAA with something else. For simplicity for example overwriting
the whole MBR. If running linux that would be:
# dd if=/dev/zero bs=512 count=1 of=/dev/hda
but I do not know how to do this with xp. does someone else know?
cu
maurice
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