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Appendix A. Alternate boot sequence on POS systems

Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment relies heavily on the capability of booting the target system from the network in order to catch the PXE server.

Traditionally, on Desktop PCs, laptops and Intel servers, the normal boot sequence can be interrupted just after POST by pressing F12 or similar. Here, POS systems are different. First off, they do not necessarily have a keyboard with F12 attached, secondly, not all systems have support for the alternate boot sequence.

This appendix explains the principles to be applied using some practical examples from the environment used during the writing of this document

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