Re: Remote boot server feedback

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From: KM (konstmor_at_nospam_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:50:42 -0800

Desi,

> My target device is already using a General Software BIOS, but I have
> the boot order set to PXe boot, then boot from CF, then CDROM (Not
> always there, since it's USB). This works fine if I can change the PXe
> boot option in RBS to "AbortPXe" instead of Startrom.n12. I know of no
> way to adjust the BIOS settings programmatically, short of hacking
> something. Do you have more info?

Well.. General Software will be more helpful to you here. They are usually very open for any techincal discussions.
Anf, of course, google is your friend here as well. Search for BIOS, CMOS ports, etc.

> The target has no floppy drive, just USB ports. So booting from floppy
> (Or even CDROM) is questionable.

You can make it boot from USB after all. tehre are some PXe client on verious OS (DOS, QNX, ETC).
Even XPe RAM boot from USB would work but I just don't know a 3rd party PXe client for XP (you may want to search again).

> I like the idea of changing the rbsprov.ini file. When you say that
> "Mostly you don't even have to re-start the RBS service on the server"
> , what do you mean exactly? Do you know of cases where the RBS service
> must be restarted?

Well. You have to restart the RBS only when you change the DHCP port (067) global setting of the RBS, which you unlikely be changing
in your scenerio.

> Who should I request RBS API information from at Microsoft? Jon Fincher?

I am not MS employee so I can't tell you that for sure. However, I may guess that Jon [developer] wouldn't be able to send you this
publicly not available API docs. You would better off contacting Ravi [XPe PM].

Regards,
    Konstantin

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