by I’m doing some work on fixing up our build and provisioning environment, and found the following blog post for booting Acronis via PXE:
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/network-administrator/pxe-aka-pre-execution-environment-and-acronis-part-2/
I ended up using the kernel and ramdisk from the Acronis Universal Restore CD which seemed to work just fine. Sadly, my wifi at home is acting just funky enough that testing a restore is pretty darn painful. I’ll give it a whirl Monday.
This is a fairly minor thing, but I never end up never having an Acronis CD (or blank cd to make one) when I need it. Or I’m hundred of miles away from the server I want to run Acronis on and can’t put the CD in the drive. This makes Acronis a quick “F12” away no matter what (assuming I have a KVM, of course 🙂