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VM BIOS problem with Altiris deployment

Hi,

I need to be able to deploy VMs using Altiris 6.9 The problem I have is that the VM BIOS is not set to PXE boot first (by default), it's fine for the first boot as it will have nothing on its virtual hard drive and so will boot PXE and find the deployment server, however, when it reboots during the build process it tries to boot on the hard drive but there's no OS on it at that point and so it fails.

I need to be able to set the boot order in the BIOS for all future VMs as a default, not change it on an individual basis - I know I could define and save an NVRAM file and change the vmx file to reference this one but I really need to change the default NVRAM that ESX creates - is there any way to do this?

Thanks

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