[CentOS] OT: BIOS upgrades and booting without a floppy drive
John Newbigin
jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au
Wed Aug 24 03:56:17 UTC 2005
David Thompson wrote:
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> If you're set up to do PXE, you can boot a floppy image over the network via
> PXELINUX/MEMDISK and get rid of the physical media altogether.
This does not work however for IBM ThinkCenter machines. The flash
program locks up if you boot via the network. I assume it is related to
memory used for the disk image. It is a real PITA.
John.
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> http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php
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> Dave Thompson
> UW-Madison
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