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My NIC doesn support PXE and making/buying a boot ROM for it is out of the question. Can I just boot off a hard disk?

April 26, 2017boot buying NIC PXE ROM support

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My NIC doesn support PXE and making/buying a boot ROM for it is out of the question. Can I just boot off a hard disk?

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Sure. Make a small DOS (FAT12 or FAT16) partition and use loadlin or syslinux to boot (loadlin is simple, syslinux offers more candy). See How to install Thinstation.