[1078] in athena10
Re: Athena 10 PXE install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Fri Feb 6 18:29:08 2009
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2009 18:28:08 -0500
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
Yup. Alexp was on the verge of figuring that out for himself when I
went to tell him that explanation.
-Bill
On Feb 6, 2009, at 6:15 PM, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>
> This:
>
>> 1. When the Athena 10 installer finished, it went directly into
>> the WinAthena
>> installer. I was able to exit with F3, but this will be confusing
>> to users.
>
> ...makes it sound like the machine is set to PXE boot by default. The
> default PXE boot (if you don't press F8 fairly quickly) is the
> WinAthena
> installer. It could also result if earlier boot options aren't
> valid, so
> could occur if the disk was trashed, but you wouldn't have been
> able to
> boot into Athena 10 afterwards if it was. Can you check your boot
> device
> ordering?
