From: "Steve Simon" <steve@quintile.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe - nvram
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:13:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44f8762171a1cdd3d41a31d12ba099de@quintile.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411290811180.16481@linux.site>
I really like PXE boot as it needs no disks of any kind,
not even an IDE flash card. I hoped there might be somwhere I could
put my auth ID and key so I could boot CPU servers the same way
but I cannot see how - I have to use a disk of some sort.
I was vaguely hoping somone might know a standardised free area
PXE flash on ether cards or maybe know how to hide 64 odd bytes
of data in the CMOS nvram on x86 PCs.
The only idea I came up with is a allowing secstore to serve
up files without a password for given MAC address and auth ID pairs,
but then again MACs are no longer fixed-in-the-die in modern cards
so I am suspectable to spoofing.
Anyway the general answer appears to be "no" for x86 PCs.
-Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-29 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-28 17:07 Steve Simon
2004-11-29 11:42 ` Matthias Teege
2004-11-29 12:05 ` geoff
2004-11-29 15:11 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-29 18:13 ` Steve Simon [this message]
2004-11-29 18:49 ` Sergey Reva
2004-11-30 7:58 ` geoff
2004-11-30 15:48 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 16:28 ` Jason Gurtz
2004-11-30 16:36 ` Nigel Roles
2004-11-30 16:46 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 18:30 ` Jack Johnson
2004-11-30 19:44 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 19:54 ` rog
2004-11-30 19:51 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-11-30 21:57 ` Jack Johnson
2004-11-30 2:08 ` Kenji Okamoto
2004-11-30 9:14 ` [9fans] usb storage (was Re: pxe - nvram) Richard Miller
2004-12-01 15:33 ` [9fans] pxe - nvram Sergey Reva
2004-12-01 16:03 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-01 18:18 ` Sergey Reva
2004-12-01 18:30 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2004-12-01 18:42 ` Jack Johnson
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