Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
by pyrolistical on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:10PM
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This is neat. It’s like Mac internet recovery mode but for everybody else
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Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
by RulerOf on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:42PM
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I've wondered for some time why none of the major OEMs have built this. Surely if I could embed an iPXE module into my board's BIOS with HTTPS support and a custom boot server that chainloads all of it logic from the internet, including a plethora of hardware support tools.
They could even tie the availability of premium internet-booted tools to the service tag and get that sweet SaaS subscription money.
Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
by jonathantf2 on Monday June 20, 2022 @04:54PM
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Dell machines do this, if you boot to SupportAssist you can wipe and reload the drive from the BIOS, it'll download Windows for you. It even lets you log into your Microsoft account to get your BitLocker recovery key and restore all your files from your dead partition.
Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
by coredog64 on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:32PM
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I only know this because once every two weeks my corporate Dell laptop will BSOD, forget that it has a hard drive, and then continuously try to boot over HTTPS until I enter UEFI setup and fiddle with boot device order.
Re:Netboot.xyz: your favorite operating systems in one place
by galago on Monday June 20, 2022 @08:02PM
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Its just for clean installs, but at work I can PXE boot a system and use a MS tool called Lite Touch to install Windows plus many software packages. It works pretty well. I can also PXE boot into some other operating systems and get my domain home directory. I should say, we're not using this project, but its the same concept.