Re: force netbooting even with new bios ??

[Jim McQuillan <jam@McQuil.com>]

Chris,

Why not set it in the bios, then password protect the bios?

Or, some motherboards have a jumper to disallow changes to be
written to the cmos.

Jim McQuillan
jam@ltsp.org

Christoph Neerfeld wrote:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> 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 like
> to force the system to use boot prom even if bios settings disable netbooting.
> 
> Does anyone have an idea how to do this ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
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