Hi,

Something we used to do from the Ghost PXE boot wizard was a PXE boot menu that defaulted to an option to join a standing Ghost session after a short timeout period, with other options to boot (per-model) to PC-DOS and run a BIOS update.

I am curious about doing the same sort of thing with the ConfigMgr OSD boot image, so that a menu would come up that defaults to the ConfigMgr OSD boot wim, but could be intercepted to boot into PC-DOS or WinPE to do the BIOS update... I looked into it once before (before I actually had OSD PXE up and running all the way) and I got close, but couldn't get it quite right.

Is that something that I would be able to do by customizing the WDS boot files with BCDedit, or would there be a better way to do it, maybe with a Pre-Execution hook?

I know we could theoretically push the BIOS updates with DCCU, but most of our clients are laptops and I am concerned about the advertisement hitting clients when they are not plugged in to power, and failing with alerts that will confuse the end users.

Thanks.

-ben

 

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