Re: Booting from HDD

["Anton V. Fedorov" <anton@florin.ru>]

Omar Walid Llorente wrote:

> > I work at a Windows workstation and sometime I need a X-terminal
> > (Linux started from network). I want to make netboot ask me what I want
> > at boot time... Something like this: "Press 'H' to boot from HDD or
> > 'N' to boot from Network".
> >
> > Does anybody know a standard way to do it?
> >
> > Anton.
> 
>         Yes, of course. The way is to make netboot to display a menu (made
> with mknbi-mgl) which allows to choose among different options. One would
> be use the local harddisk for booting (telling it which partition) and
> another would be to load an image from the tftp server (which you have made
> with mknbi-linux or mknbi-dos). I think there is enough info in the netboot
> package, but if you need some help, don't doubt to ask for. The initial menu
> is taken from the tftp boot server in an standard way.

Thank you for your reply. 
But I want an other thing. BIOS on my computer can boot from A:, 
HDD-IDE, HDD-SCSI and CDROM. All I need is boot as my BIOS want
if I don't want boot from network.

Anton.

P.S.
Sorry for my bad language...

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