Soooo... vPro is a nice handy way to reboot & diagnose PC problems before the o/s loads... you can remote into the bios etc...
One problem if you need to use it to remote a PC into PXE boot (for RIS / WDS) is the lack of F12 passthrough! Suggested fixes from the msg boards suggest simply setting the client to one time boot to PXE then set the PXE server to auto it... not possible in all environments as you may have clients (like here) always going to PXE...
So we hack around it! Using rom-o-matic.com's PXE boot disk creator with custom script on the end -
ifstat
ifopen
dhcp net0
chain n12\i386\startrom.com << this points to a different dir on the RIS filesystem (standard would be OSChooser\i386\startrom.com) where startrom.n12 has been renamed to startrom.com (the standard way to get PXE clients to network boot automatically) *edit* Found out if you simply put the path as OSChooser\i386\startrom.n12 you won't need the extra directory...
So now you can remote the client (I'm using radmin viewer) & redirect to the boot image (iso) and voila! it "auto" F12's and you're into the OSChooser.
Now just need to fix the network driver conflict in the next phase!
