674 What does CodeMonkeyZ's big technical announcement from the past few hours re: the discovery that the voting machines could boot a different version of their PXE OS via network? THIS. The machines could boot clean during an audit... but run logic from a "central command" during an actual election! (media.greatawakening.win) posted 3 years ago by catsfive 3 years ago by catsfive +675 / -1 139 comments download share 139 comments share download save hide report block hide replies
Nope, if you boot via USB, you don't boot via PXE, those are two different things
USB is a local boot device / media, you boot from the PC bootloader directly there
PXE you boot the system in this modality (Pre-Boot Execution Environment), and it connects to the boot / deployment infrastructure over the network
Here are some examples (this uses Novell but there are many ways to do it, just take the idea)
http://www.novell.com/documentation/zcm10/zcm10_preboot_imaging/graphics/preboot_process_01_a.png
http://www.novell.com/documentation/zcm10/zcm10_preboot_imaging/graphics/zcm101_imgsatsrv_pxeboot_a.png