Re: Remote management of the default boot option?

[Brian Reichert]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 02:49:41PM +0100, Marek Kozlowski wrote:
> :-)
> 
> I have a group of hosts with several OSes (including Linux) installed. 
> Those are placed in several, sometimes distant, places.
> 
> What I'm interested in is:
> to have some central database that allow specifying that for the nearest 
> bootup:
> - workstations A, B, C and D should start by default Linux,
> - workstations E, F, G and H should start by default Windows 7,
> - other workstations should start by default Windows 10.
> I mean getting the 'default' option by some kind of a DHCP-like request 
> to a centrally managed database.
> 
> Unfortunately I cannot find such a feature. Did I miss something or 
> there is no such a possibility? :-(

Preboot execution environment (PXE) ?

> 
> Best regards,
> Marek
> 
> 

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Brian Reichert                          <reichert@numachi.com>
BSD admin/developer at large