RE: Linux PXE info

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Hi,

> My plan is to execute a non-linux module for authentication.
> 
> Steps involved are:
> 
> * Start the system
> * Network PXE starts, gets the DHCP assigned address
> * PXE tries to connect to the nearby tftp server, grabs the NON-Linux
> authentication module
> * executes the module, I get the results of authetication
> * Now, HOW can I access the bootloader on the Harddisk? How can we do
> that?
> 

I guess your authentication module would be running in real mode and not in protected mode? If yes, then you can try to make BIOS calls to directly read / write to hard disk. I'm assuming we're talking about a PC here?

Thanks,

Rajat

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