I believe some pci nics do pxe boot. I think I have one, which is a trendnet gig-e card from Fry's ($13 or so), but I'm not positive. I think the bios needs to support pxe as well as the card. Stephen wrote: > I think there are some other protocols, but im hazy on it. > > as for adding it find a nic that supports pxe boot. (i think) > > On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: >> I've built my second PXE boot server and wanted to test the various boots. >> So far I have found only two of my machines that support PXE booting and I >> do not wish to disturb them. I've tested 7 other machines that seem to have >> no such ability. One of them shows in BIOS that you can include the LAN as >> a boot device but it does not seem to use the PXE boot of the PXE server >> that is giving it its IP address with DHCP. Since that works for another >> machine plugged into the same switch, I conclude that it expects some other >> protocol for booting from the net. >> >> 1) Does anyone know a way to ADD the ability to a machine to PXE boot from >> the LAN (e.g. adding some ethernet card)? >> 2) Are there network boot protocols other than PXE? >> >> -- >> Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry >> >> The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, >> that I wish it always to be kept alive. >> - Thomas Jefferson >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > -- -Eric 'shubes' --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss