From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44f8762171a1cdd3d41a31d12ba099de@quintile.net> From: "Steve Simon" Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:13:47 +0000 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] pxe - nvram In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0ea31a9e-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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