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Re: force netbooting even with new bios ??




>We have some newer systems now that have the "feature" to disable netbooting
>from the bios setup. Since we considere the bios setting as insecure we'd lik
>e
>to force the system to use boot prom even if bios settings disable netbooting
>.
>
>Does anyone have an idea how to do this ?

Since the netboot ROM is an extension BIOS, you can't netboot without
the agreement of the main BIOS. Is the BIOS password too insecure for you?
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