<![CDATA[Force PXE boot on windows]]>Hello,
When I push out a task via the web manager, the client picks up the instruction, and restarts the machine. At this point, I would expect the machine to PXE boot (like ghost does), but it just starts windows up, and reboots again after ~5 seconds.
Is this possible to do without hiding the menu and changing boot order? I would expect it to be possible, as it worked this way when we used ghost in the past.
Many Thanks,
Owen

]]>http://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12277/force-pxe-boot-on-windowsRSS for NodeSun, 11 Oct 2026 15:03:29 GMTThu, 26 Jul 2018 09:49:12 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Force PXE boot on windows on Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:43:48 GMT]]>@Sebastian-Roth while poking round in the BIOS on some new Dell machines I did find an option called “Force PXE on next Boot” - https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-uk/dell-cmnd-config-v3.0/dell_command_configure_cli-v3/-forcepxeonnextboot?guid=guid-85c17652-4a18-4538-8665-e6b3e777d649&lang=en-us

You have to have the dell tools installed, but this would be a possible option.

I know with my current machines when a BIOS update happens it keeps overwriting the boot order so my PXE boot doesn’t happen. Quite annoying!

I don’t know how I’d go about making the FOG Client execute this command before a task reboot though.

]]>http://forums.fogproject.org/post/157452http://forums.fogproject.org/post/157452Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:43:48 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Force PXE boot on windows on Thu, 26 Jul 2018 19:51:03 GMT]]>@OFlaherty GHOST does some magic thing when rebooting a client into a job. It backups and rewrites the master boot record and boot partition to bring up the GHOST imaging environment. FOG does not do this as it is quite dangerous and can break things fatally. FOG relies on real PXE booting a client to be able to run a scheduled job.

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