Hi, > Greetings. > > We would like to change the BIOS settings on our headless compute > nodes to enable PXE booting which is disabled in the default > configuration. Reading and writing with /dev/nvram appears to work > but on reboot the change in CMOS is recognised, assumed to be a corruption > > (it might be a corruption if /dev/nvram is not properly supported) > and prompts to be reset. Is there a way round this? > > There is no support for a serial console in the BIOS. The nodes have > a floppy disk. Any thoughts on alternatives?
What type of hardware is this, branded (HP, IBM, etc) or non-branded? Michael. > Thanks - Andy. ------- End of Original Message -------
