PXE! Cool, thats exactly what I was looking for. I'll make sure it is
settable from IPMI on the motherboards I''m looking at before I start
buying them in quantity. Thanks much!
On Mar 31, 2008, at 1:09 AM, Stefan Nickl wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-03-29 at 17:59 -1000, Martin Hess wrote:
>> Is there functionality in ipmitool that enables the remote
>> installation of an OS a new machine? I know Apple and some of the
>> other big vendors have proprietary solutions but I'm looking for a
>> solution that will work on commodity hardware that supports IPMI 2.0.
>>
>> I'm hoping that ipmitool will help with this because I need to be
>> able
>> to script OS installation so that I can do this repeatedly without
>> user intervention.
>
> The way I work on some of our ATCA machines (eg. AT8030) is to use the
> parameters "chassis bootparam set bootflag force_pxe", and
> "picmg frucontrol ${FRU} 0x00".
>
> Put these into a script and you can make all boards of a system go
> for example into pxelinux/kickstart installation without messing with
> the BIOS boot order at any point.
>
> If this will work of course depends on the hardware you're using.
>
> Regards,
> Stefan
>
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