Honest Guvnor wrote:
On 9/25/07, John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
these are all exactly the same model & revision? Same BIOS version?
Yes.
Does dumping NVRAM and restoring it not work?
Yes it works in that the node cleanly reboots afterwards.
Unfortunately, if any of the settings are changed in order to enable
PXE booting the reboot fails because of a checksum test against the
checksum of the previous BIOS settings. I think I need to find a way
to disable the checksum, get at the checksum to replace it or persuade
it to boot with "corrupted" BIOS settings.
Just to be entirely certain you are saying what I think, if you set the
BIOS the way you want it on one, then copy it to others, that it does
not work?
I would think that if you are copying all of the BIOS settings, then the
checksum should be right.
I think you should ask this question on nahant-list because I'm sure
there's an AMD bloke there who's done exactly this. It might be that
someone there can advise how to calculate the checksum and fix it.
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Cheers
John
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