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ronk
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Sorry, I do not want to irritate anyone with a stupid question, but what is the Gigabit boot agent that appears during start up used for?
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D_o_S
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I'm not sure, but I think it is used if you are part of a mega-(tera)-corporation with millions and millions of computers, you receive your IP before you enter the OS which should *theoreticaly* speed up booting. I also think it enables WakeOnLAN and LAN based features. Nonetheless, I leave the cable unplugged during boot, because I have no server at home to get a IP from (static IP, I plug the cable in when I am in Windows), so the agent just slows down booting for me.
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gnarly
Guest
Yea I wish I knew a way to deactivate it completely -- even when you remove it from the boot sequence it still slows booting. I tried hitting shift + f10 to enter the setup utility, but all i saw was you could disable its display, but not it itself.
Anybody know how to zap it?
Anybody know how to zap it?
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D_o_S
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Go to BIOS -> Integrated phehiperials -> Onboard, and disable the Gigabit network adapter if you don't need it. I you do need it, unplud the cable during boot. It still displays the text, but imediately writes "Exiting PXE ROM" and continues to OS. Once you're in OS, plug it back in.
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crackwookie
Guest
The gigabit boot agent is a small piece of software in the BIOS, (on the k8T anyway) that allows you to boot your pc from the network.
If you have a dhcp server properly configured, you can give have it give your machine an IP address, and also tell it that there is a server on the network that has a boot image that it should load. You machine will then connect to that server, retrieve the boot image, and load it.
Most cards that have a boot agent use PXE, which is a Preboot eXecution Environment.
I have used netbooting in a few places that I have worked and it was very useful. I used it at a college to allow any computer connected to the network to be netbooted to a dos based ms-networking prompt, so I could reimage the machine with ghost instead of having to carry around a network boot disk.
You could also use it for kiosks, or so that you could have machine with no local storage.
I was looking into using it to boot some pc's straight into a dos version of citrix, so that some old pc's wouldn't need hard drives at all.
If you have a dhcp server properly configured, you can give have it give your machine an IP address, and also tell it that there is a server on the network that has a boot image that it should load. You machine will then connect to that server, retrieve the boot image, and load it.
Most cards that have a boot agent use PXE, which is a Preboot eXecution Environment.
I have used netbooting in a few places that I have worked and it was very useful. I used it at a college to allow any computer connected to the network to be netbooted to a dos based ms-networking prompt, so I could reimage the machine with ghost instead of having to carry around a network boot disk.
You could also use it for kiosks, or so that you could have machine with no local storage.
I was looking into using it to boot some pc's straight into a dos version of citrix, so that some old pc's wouldn't need hard drives at all.
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R-Rbit
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I have bios v.1.2, and I don't always get the 'Gigabit boot agent' message.
I'm not sure but it its either the 'Quick Boot' or 'System performance' options in bios (I'd quess it's the Quick Boot, but I'm too lazy to verify it...).
I tried setting both of these to 'Enable' and 'Turbo' respectively, and after that I got the 'Gigabit boot agent' as 1st boot device, and the bios searches for boot from LAN at startup.
After I set them to 'Disable' and 'Fast', the Gigabit boot message disappeared, and evn in boot order settings, there is no more the option for it.
I'm not sure but it its either the 'Quick Boot' or 'System performance' options in bios (I'd quess it's the Quick Boot, but I'm too lazy to verify it...).
I tried setting both of these to 'Enable' and 'Turbo' respectively, and after that I got the 'Gigabit boot agent' as 1st boot device, and the bios searches for boot from LAN at startup.
After I set them to 'Disable' and 'Fast', the Gigabit boot message disappeared, and evn in boot order settings, there is no more the option for it.