Re: [CentOS] force a PXE boot

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:35 +0100, Tom Brown wrote:

Hi

I could be going mad but it there a way to force a PXE boot on next reboot? ie tell the box that next time it reboots try a PXE boot first?

thanks

I don't know Dell machines very good (i'm more familiar with IBM Machines ....) but for IBM machines in the Bios you have two boot sequence listed : - the normal one (that you can still force to use pxe first if you want to ...) - the wake-on-lan boot sequence one : this order is applied only when the machine is booted remotely through a wake-on-lan packet

Look at the Dell bios to see if such thing exists for your Dell servers. To send a wake-on-lan packet from another machine you can use wol (available in the rpmforge repo)