Ghost Solution Suite

I am using 3com boot services to PXE boot to Ghost sessions from this article:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH110129&actp=search&viewlocale=en_US&searchid=1311058866588

It all works fine, the clients boot to the network and display the list of Ghost TCP\IP ghost images.

The question is I would like another menu entry that boots to the computers hard disk so if a user accidentally boots to the network it will timeout and boot normally. There is a guide how to create a 3com boot menu but the Ghost instructions very specifically say I need to specify /boot/pxeboot.n12 in the image (which is where the guide says to put any created menu file).

Can I add this hard drive boot menu entry somehow, somewhere?

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From guide:

Creating a PXE Menu Boot File

At the Server:

1. When using PXE, you must create a menu boot file in

addition to the image file. You use the 3Com Boot Image

Editor to create this PXE menu boot file. Launch the 3Com

Boot Image Editor and select "Create a PXE menu boot file."

2. Select "Add" from the toolbar.

3. Enter the image file name, ghstboot.sys and a description. Click OK.

5. Enter a menu file name “deploy.pxe” and click Save

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I hope that makes sense?

Thanks for any ideas.

If you are using PCDOS ,this is possible.Since you are using WINPE,I am afraid there is no option to do this(atleast from what I have read under the manual and other articles).

You could configure WinPE to call an HTA file into which you have written a menu front end and added an option to exit and reboot the system.

Thanks for the reply Ed T, The answer sounds like a plan but I am afraid i will need a little more help acting on your reply. Can you elaborate or provide help links for your idea?

WinPE is a heavily cut down version of windows that basically does not support much in the way of GUI operations, being aimed at command line stuff. However, HTA files leverage the support of the browser code and allow you to build basic GUI front ends for menus, etc.  HTA files also enable you to add VBScript and WMI code in-line to perform "logical" operations based on user input, or on detection of the hardware to automate operations wherever possible.

There are HTA coding examples to be found on the Microsoft website (I am not at home so unable to pull out links easily) and you can also download HTA editors although since HTA is basically HTML you can use HTML editors as well.  

I hope this is enough to get you up and running with a bit of help from Google.