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This is Chameleon 2.0 modified by Chimera branch modified by me. You can use it to net-boot :)
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[Q] Is this bootloader can control which os will boot on server side? #2

Open hiroyuki-sato opened 11 years ago

hiroyuki-sato commented 11 years ago

Hello

I have triple boot environment(linux, mac, windows) on mac mini 2011 I would like to control which os will boot on server side.

Is this bootloader can control which os will boot on server side?

For example If I change DHCP configuration, I can control boot oses like the foollowing I would like to boot Linux at next time, I would like to boot osx at next time..

Thank you for your advice.

Hiroyuki Sato.

fxtentacle commented 11 years ago

While you could certainly patch Chameleon to do that, my branch currently doesn't support it. This bootloader is designed to boot different versions of Mac Os X over network, so you can use it to choose which OSX version is being loaded.. but currently you cannot use it to load non-osx environments.

If i remember correctly, you can run chameleon through PXE: http://www.puredarwin.org/developers/booting/boot/pxe and you should also be able to boot linux through PXE: http://how-to.linuxcareer.com/network-booting-with-linux-pxe

So you could setup a DHCP server which will redirect the booting computer to one of two pre-generated PXE images, where one PXE image is used for OS X and one is used for Linux.

However, i haven't tried that so this is only a guess ...

Cheers, Hajo

hiroyuki-sato commented 11 years ago

Hello Hajo,

Thank you for your information.

I'll try to run chameleon through PXE.