[K12OSN] compaq deskpros

Les Mikesell les at futuresource.com
Mon Jan 22 19:16:11 UTC 2007


Petre Scheie wrote:
> I suspect not all Dell GX1 machines are the same.  I have one that I 
> use for some other things, but thought I'd try to test it as a 
> client.  Despite upgrading the BIOS, there's no option in the setup 
> for network booting (PXE or otherwise).  I'd love to be insulted by 
> someone telling me there is a way to make this happen.  An etherboot 
> floppy doesn't count, I'm already doing that; I want to make it boot 
> via BIOS setting.

What bios version do you have (it should show on the first boot 
screen).  I think you need
A10 or whatever is the latest.  Then in the bios setup you hit alt-P to 
go to the second
page and ctl-shift-right-arrow on boot order to set PXE ahead of the 
hard drive.

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  Les Mikesell
   les at futuresource.com




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