[Casper] boot camp commands on windows

Tue Jul 8 11:47:37 PDT 2008

Eric

Thanks I have not looked at the newest version of boot picker or refit so they may have very well added command mode to it.  

I will have to check that out

thanks

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>>> Eric Winkelhake <eric.winkelhake at us-resources.com> 7/8/2008 1:29 PM >>>
I know this doesn't help but if BootPicker has a problem with not mounting 
the volume why not just make it hidden with a .hidden file or using the 
setfile command found in the dev tools to set the invisible attribute?? 
Anyway, take a look at refit.  I'm pretty sure you can lock down boot 
choices which means preventing target disk mode and optical/external 
booting.  Here's info from the latest version:

ersion 0.11 (February 20, 2008):
                Support for the MacBook Air.
                Apple Hardware Test is no longer shown as a separate 
choice in the main menu. If present, it is now an option in the Mac OS X 
submenu.
                Additional configuration options to lock down rEFIt for a 
lab environment.

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"Thomas Larkin" <TLARKI at kckps.org> 
07/08/08 12:17 PM

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Re: [Casper] boot camp commands on windows

Yeah, boot picker is nice and I have used that in the past.  The only huge 
downside for me is that I have to open up firmware access for boot picker 
to run, and it doesn't like the fact that I make the windows partition not 
mount at start up via /etc/fstab.  In my environment if we unlock firmware 
I know that some students will use target mode booting or an installer DVD 
to root a machine, and that is something my boss doesn't want to happen, 
nor do I.  I know that physical access tosses all security out the window, 
but a firmware password is a huge deterrent, and 99% of the students won't 
want to physically open up their macbooks to bypass the firmware password. 
 Mainly because we can tell, and we charge them for the laptop if that is 
the case.

Trust me, I would rather not put windows on any of these machines but due 
to time and a certain application I have absolutely no choice.  Next 
school year if the developer doesn't get off their butts and fix their 
product to make it web based (like they are promising us) I am going to 
have to lobby to change products.

thanks,

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
KCKPS USD500
tlarki at kckps.org 
cell:  913-449-7589
office:  913-627-0351

>>> Eric Winkelhake <eric.winkelhake at us-resources.com> 7/8/2008 12:10 PM 
>>>
Not sure about forcing them....but have you seen BootPicker from bombich?? 

 Or maybe rEFIt??  Their open source so maybe you could manipulate one to 
get the desired effect.

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Re: [Casper] boot camp commands on windows

I?ve been asking for this same thing. I haven?t checked out the updated 
version of bootcamp yet, but my guess there is nothing in there for 
?Enterprise? support.

If someone has something that does this I would owe them big time!

Craig

On 7/8/08 1:04 PM, "Thomas Larkin" <TLARKI at kckps.org> wrote:

Is anyone running any kind of scripts or hooks with in the windows side 
that use boot camp?  Like, how would you force someone in windows to 
change the default boot volume back to OS X and reboot the system?

Thanks,

Thomas Larkin
TIS Department
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