Re: force netbooting even with new bios ??

[Christoph Neerfeld <Christoph.Neerfeld@home.ivm.de>]

On 23-May-2000 Ken Yap wrote:
> 
>>We have some newer systems now that have the "feature" to disable netbooting
>>from the bios setup. Since we considere the bios setting as insecure we'd lik
>>e
>>to force the system to use boot prom even if bios settings disable netbooting
>>.
>>
>>Does anyone have an idea how to do this ?
> 
> Since the netboot ROM is an extension BIOS, you can't netboot without
> the agreement of the main BIOS. Is the BIOS password too insecure for you?

AFAIK hacking the bios password is quite easy as long as Win NT is installed on
our systems. So we seek for a solution that boots right into the system
regardless of any boot order.

-Chris

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