John Summerfied wrote:
I've decided I'd rather boot a CD than change BIOS settings twice.
We have two classes of machines that use PXE for booting. One class allows or requires you to choose PXE at boot time (both, as it happens, use F12 for that, one to choose a one-time boot; one to choose network boot). We generally have to change the BIOS once as these machines all run headless, mouseless and keyboardless. Even if you have machines that *have* to boot PXE first you get a choice on the PXE boot screen of booting locally -- in fact that's the default.
If you're really lucky you don't even have to change the BIOS once. Our latest aquisition, a cheap Compaq Presario, didn't need me to touch the BIOS at all, not even a little bit.
jch