Hello, Try to boot on a flash, you can have everything you need. And it is not difficult to have a updater working on Win/Linux system. Regards, Li, Bo ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Fehrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <beowulf@beowulf.org> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:15 PM Subject: [Beowulf] BIOS
> Hello, > > we are interested in flashing a BIOS image and in manipulating the NVRAM of > the motherboard > automatically. > > Unfortunately, using certain vendors, the access to the NVRAM is not > straightforward. > These vendors are offering DOS tools only, to write in the NVRAM, hence, we > have to boot > a DOS image and here starts the trouble. > > Optimally, using the DOS environment does following things: > * flashes the BIOS > * sets the NVRAM > * sends a message to the install server > > The last point is necessary to prepare pxeboot for the installation process. > It also means, we need networking under DOS. > In particular, we are looking for a DOS-DHCP client. Everything needs to be > packed on > a 2,9M floppy image. > > Has somebody experiences with this? > > In the worst case, the DOS environment is working autonomously and the > install server is 'guessing' > whether the BIOS is flashed or not on the clients, > e.g., by analyzing the DHCP logs, but this is not what we really want. > > Regards > Henning Fehrmann > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
