Compellent this week introduced software that makes it easier for storage administrators to set up their servers to boot from storage-area networks.

You can now boot the Raspberry Pi 3 from just about anything. The documentation for these new boot modes goes over the process of how to put an image on a USB thumb drive.

At my job when we ghost all the computers we disconnect them from the network (ghosting slows down the network a bunch) and connect them to a small switch manualy (which is hooked up to the ghost ...

The boot process involves loading the operating system code from the SAN when the server is turned on.

No, really, I can start the boot process, take a dump, wash up, get a glass of water, and STILL not have a login box. <BR><BR>A tech suggested that it's "timing out" on the network connection.

Clearly a project from the “Because why not?” school of hacking, [Jozef Bogin] came up with the twist to the normal booting process for an IBM-PC.