User manual

The NVDD Configuration File
236 Enabling Client MultiBoot
mPXELdr gets the parameter <volume_name>.desc of each bootable
volume.
mPXELdr displays this description after the number assigned
to the corresponding volume. If there is no
<volume_name>.desc
parameter for a specific volume,
mPXELdr will not not display any-
thing after
HD,.
The first volume in the list is assigned the number 1, the second vol-
ume is assigned number 2 etc. The user can press 1 to boot from vol-
ume number 1, 2 to boot from volume number 2, etc. After a time-
out of 10 seconds, if no volume was chosen,
mPXELdr will start boot-
ing from volume number 1.
Note:
• Only bootable volumes (volumes for which the parameter
<volume_name>.boot_device is set to true, which corresponds
to the "boot" option in the
General tab of Volume properties in
the Neoware Image Manager Console) are displayed as boot
menu choices.
• The volumes in the <group_name>.vols list that are not bootable
are mounted as extra volumes under Windows (assigned to the
drive letters
D:, E:, etc. for instance).
• Only one bootable volume is mounted by Windows. This is the
volume that was chosen as the boot volume at boot time. The
other bootable volumes are ignored.
• The default boot volume (Virtual HD #1) is the first volume
name listed by
<group_name>.vols.
Tip:
If you want to mount a volume that is usually a bootable volume as
an extra volume, you can change the
<volume_name>.boot_device
parameter for that volume to
false, then specify the name of this
volume in the
<group_name>.vols parameter for the relevant cli-
ent(s).
You could also copy a volume definition that uses the same disk
image file as the bootable volume, but then set this new volume def-