On 2010-01-23 03:32, [email protected] wrote: > Jefferson Ogata wrote: >> Anyone know how to PXE boot an R900 off of an Intel 10Gb optical NIC >> rather than one of the onboard copper NICs? > > Some Intel 10Gb optical NICs are bootable, but not necessarily all. For > bootable adapters, the boot ROM needs to be programmed and enabled using a > DOS-based tool; either flautil.exe or ibautil.exe. These tools can be found > on support.dell.com in packages named in the pattern > Intel_LAN_*_DOSUtilities*.
Thanks for the reply! Well, this is the 10GBE NIC provided by Dell as part RN219, and the specs on that part claim it supports PXE boot. I have gotten as far as figuring out I might need to run IBAUTIL.EXE to enable PXE boot on the device ROM, but I'm so far stymied at actually getting to a state where I can execute that program. None of the ancient DOS bootable floppy images I have around seems to want to boot on this system via virtual floppy. Any clues? Anyone successfully booted a bare metal R900 to a DOS/Windows command line in order to run such a beast? _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
