[mythtv-users] OT Bootloader that can detect how machinewasst arted?

[Dawson, Guy]

> >Does anyone know of a way of have a PC boot into Windows if the power
> > > button is pressed, or into Linux in response to a WakeOverLan event.  
> > >
> > >The most powerful machine I have is the machine used by the whole
> > >family for gaming and surfing.  It seems such a waste not to use it
> > >for transcoding.  So what I thought was s that I'd set it up for
> > >dual boot (no problem with that).  However it's not easy getting
> > >machine time (kids are addicted to The Sims), so I though it would
> > >bee good if my myth backend wake it up during the day when there's
> > >no-one around. (Or maybe I'm just crazy!)

> > My first though was "that's not possible", but after thinking about
> > it some more I think you can probably cobble something together
> > with wake-on-lan and network boot. The PC in question would have
> > to be set up to boot from a tftp server (most modern BIOSes can do
> > this, but if yours does not you can use the 'grub' bootloader and
> > set it up for tftp boot).

> Quite a few of the newer BIOSes have the ability to set a different boot
> order for WoL compared to normal power up.

> Other than that, I agree that a PXE boot that hands a different config
> depending on a flag somewhere shouldn't be too difficult.

> Graham

Hmm...

I hadn't thought that far 'outside the box' (quite literally in this case).


My initial response was going to be that I did not want the family PC
dependant on the backend, but of course it wouldn't be since in the absence
of the BE the PC would eventually give up on PXE and revert to windows.
That led me to think that I might be able to do it by having the BE ignore
PXE requests from the PC unless the BE had sent the WOL.

All I have to do now is figure out how to do all this,  and find the time to
try!!

Thanks Again


Guy



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