...or
use boot.ini to start on OS on a separate partition - it need only be small
because it would probably only need dos - but that OS would have no qualms about
zapping the XP partition.
Could
even contain basic recovery tools or a network client to connect to the install
point (& perhaps kick off a re-install thatway)
Just
dreaming out loud, but some of that might work
Kevin
Lawry
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Mark McRitchie
Sent: 17 February 2005 12:57
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RE: [Unattended] howto trash xpHeyas,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.Could you launch the intel boot agent via an entry in boot.ini?Just a thought,Mark.
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