On Wed, March 17, 2010 23:06, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 09:07:49PM -0400, Roehrig, Jack (John) wrote: >> Does anyone know of a utility that exists that will allow me to modify >> the BIOS boot order for Dell servers (specifically Poweredge >> [126][6789]50s and R[4567]10) from the Linux command line? I need a >> tool that is very non-intrusive, minimal, script-friendly, and will >> allow me to configure a machine to attempt a network boot before any >> other devices. I cannot install a full copy of OpenManage on these >> machines, but am not opposed to using a precompiled binary or making >> the nvram device. The distributions vary, but all will have Linux >> 2.[46] kernels. >
OK, so the syscfg program from dell-toolkit.rpm will allow setting the BIOS boot order from the command line. But it will not set the BIOS service tag, which is often the only way I can track down an error when someone mungs the inventory (short of the long drive and intense physical security to eyeball the physical asset tags). When Dell replaces a motherboard, they do not set the service tag on the new board, so this is an issue with a number of machines. Is there a way to set the BIOS service tag from a Linux command line? I know about the asset.com "/s" switch, but booting each box into DOS is not really a reasonable solution. _______________________________________________ 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
