4372ax01.fm | Draft Document for Review November 15, 2007 3:27 pm |
When to boot from hard drive and from network
For normal operation, the boot sequence should include boot from hard drive before boot from network. A normal boot sequence could look something like this:
Floppy
CD-ROM
Hard drive
Network
The actual naming may be different from one system to another.
Assuming there are no floppy or
This is an ideal situation for the deployment scenario, but there are situations where it is necessary to force the system to boot in PXE mode. This includes the following scenarios:
To take a system image backup of a working system (in order to be able to perform a system image restore at a later point in time if needed).
To start a
To start a
Forcing a POS system to boot into PXE mode
On traditional workstations and laptops this can normally be achieved by pressing the F12 key or similar during system startup. This will either prompt the user for an alternate boot device or simply try to boot from the network.
On POS systems, however, this is not always possible. Instead, the boot sequence must be changed so the system tries to start from the network before trying to start from the hard drive.
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