Sid Arth wrote:
Most modern BIOSes can boot from a network PXE server. What you'd do is configure your BIOS to boot first from the PXE server, and then if that process fails or is canceled with a user's keypress, it was fail-over to boot from the hard drive (or CDROM, or USB device, etc etc etc) and thereby start up your other OS.Is it possible to "dual boot" into either normal windows (booting from the harddrive) or linux which is stored on the network? Ive looked into something called pxe a little, but that looks more like a one way thing. Linux only and it seems you need some sorta special bios for it.
I was wondering if there is something where you could pick which OS you want to load, and if you pick the linux one, it will boot off a server on my network.
Once the BIOS finds the PXE server and starts booting from it, I believe you can have the PXE serve out whatever you want, such as the startup of a Debian boot, or the normally earlier stage of GRUB menu, which would give your users the ability to pick-and-choose from a menu which OS they want to load.
Again, I haven't done this, so don't know the specifics of doing it, but I am confident it can be done.
-- Kent