[Infrastructures] Installation using PXEboot but not booting system with DHCP

Matt S Trout infrastructures@trout.me.uk
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 16:31:14 +0100


On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 03:12:58PM -0700, David A. Ulevitch wrote:
> Infrastructure Folks,
> 
> Here's a question I've had for a while that I was reminded of by the  
> DHCP question posed to the list.
> 
> I PXEBoot for installation but then I want to boot from the hard disk  
> afterwards.

I wonder if a PC Weasel card (http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html) would
help you here? It would allow you to get to the BIOS over a serial port,
which is probably most of the battle.

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