off topic but no idea where to ask

Garrett Cooper yanegomi at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 18:22:00 UTC 2013


On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

> does anyone know a PXE image (just like /boot/pxeboot) that can be placed on tftp server and the only thing it will do would be loading first sector from first local disk at 0x07c00 and booting as with normal hard drive.
> 
> what i need is to be able to decide from server side if given computer boots from NFS or hard disk.

	Sounds like a job for PXE-enabled grub, but you probably can hack loader (pxeboot to be exact) to do the same thing. It would be nice to have a feature like this in mainline FreeBSD…
Thanks,
-Garrett


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