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Draft Document for Review November 15, 2007 3:27 pm 4372ax01.fm
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Appendix A. Alternate boot sequence on
POS systems
Tivoli Provisioning Manager for OS Deployment relies heavily on the capability of
booting the target system from the network in order to catch the PXE server.
Traditionally, on Desktop PCs, laptops and Intel servers, the normal boot
sequence can be interrupted just after POST by pressing F12 or similar. Here,
POS systems are different. First off, they do not necessarily have a keyboard with
F12 attached, secondly, not all systems have support for the alternate boot
sequence.
This appendix explains the principles to be applied using some practical
examples from the environment used during the writing of this document
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