[python-win32] Setting a netboot within windows OS

[Gowtham]

I will look if Lenovo Thinkpad provides any control to modify the BIOS
parameters.

Thank you all for your inputs :)

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:

> Vernon Cole wrote:
>
>> Gowtham:
>>   I waited before giving this answer, to let the real Windows Gurus answer
>> first.  Tims pronouncement is as good is it gets, so here is my
>> hair-brained
>> idea.  Perhaps it would actually work.
>>
>> As much as I hate to admit this on a Windows mailing list ...
>> When I have multi-boot things to accomplish, I install a copy of Linux and
>> use GRUB to do the fancy boot stuff.
>>
>
> As a  matter of fact we're in the process of testing exactly
> this solution for the Digital Escalator Panels we run here
> on the London Underground. The requirement isn't quite the
> same but, in essence, we needed a degree of boot resilience
> which we couldn't get without a more configurable boot loader.
>
> However... this doesn't help the OP since GRUB runs (depending
> to configuration) from the MBR of the first bootable device. What
> the OP wants to do is to determine which device *is* the
> principal boot device.
>
> :)
>
> TJG
>
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