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On 1/15/13 10:18 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> does anyone know a PXE image (just like /boot/pxeboot) that can be 
> placed on tftp server and the only thing it will do would be loading 
> first sector from first local disk at 0x07c00 and booting as with 
> normal hard drive.
>
> what i need is to be able to decide from server side if given computer 
> boots from NFS or hard disk.
>
This may not be helpful, but maybe you can have the server just deny the 
PXE client the infomration needed to boot and set the BIOS to boot order to:

1st: PXE
2nd: local disk

?

This way if the server doesn't respond to the pxe option then the client 
will then try local disk?

-Alfred