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c6105 bios management through ipmi
Dear colleagues,
Our team is working with C6105's in scope of OpenStack-based project.
We need to change boot devices order in BIOS through IPMI, which we're using standard ipmitool for. Unfortunately we cannot figure out how to make these changes work (we need switching between booting from pxe and hdd). Ipmi tool reports about successful changes made while system keeps booting from the previously configured device...
We suspect that the standard set of ipmi commands differs somehow from one that is used in c6105 so sending ipmi instructuins in raw format would probably work.
Can someone help us with raw parameters for: 1. making node boot from PXE; 2. making node boot from hdd;
Thanks in advance!
DELL-Chris H
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June 25th, 2012 10:00
Nbogdanov,
This is the command you should try (replace X's with your information, as well as the user and password.
PXE booting command - ipmitool -l lan -U USERNAME -P PASSWORD -H X.X.X.X. chassis bootdev pxe options=persistent
HDD booting - ipmitool -l lan -U USERNAME -P PASSWORD -H X.X.X.X. chassis bootdev harddisk options=persistent
Let me know how it goes.
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June 26th, 2012 01:00
Hi Chris, thanks for replying.
Unfortunately this hasn't helped. These instructions do not affect boot device order...
We tried resetting all "force boot" flags in bios and setting them through ipmi with "persistent" option - it looks like ipmi instructions just ignored.