Sun Microsystems Sun Fire X2100 - D.3 Flashing System BIOS from a PXE Server

Appendix D Booting the Supplemental CD from a PXE Server D-5
D.3.1 Installing the pxe_flash Image on the PXE Server
1. Log in as root (superuser) to the PXE server.
2. Make a directory for the Sun Fire X2100 Server Supplemental CD contents.
# mkdir /pxe_flash
3. Insert the Sun Fire X2100 Server Supplemental CD into the PXE server and copy
the files located in the /utilities/pxe_flash directory to the /pxe_flash
directory.
# cp /utilities/pxe_flash /pxe_flash
4. Download the MEMDISK kernel.
a. Go to the latest SYSLINUX project web site at:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
b. Download and save the latest syslinux-version.zip file to /pxe_flash.
Where version is the latest SYSLINUX project version. Version 3.36 is the latest
version at the time of this writing.
5. Unzip the syslinux-version.zip file. For example:
# unzip syslinux-3.11.zip
6. Change to the memdisk directory. For example:
# cd /pxe_flash/syslinux-3.11/memdisk
7. Copy the memdisk kernel to the /pxe_flash directory. For example:
# cp /pxe_flash/syslinux-3.11/memdisk/memdisk /pxe_flash
8. Edit /pxe_flash/input_file to include the system information and the
commands you want executed on one or more target systems. For example:
where:
■ Sys MAC Addr is the system MAC address for the target system
■ MGMT IP ADDR is the IP address for the IPMI card on the target system
# Sys MAC Addr
00:E0:81:55:XX:XX
00:E0:81:55:XX:XX
Mgmt IP Addr
129.129.129.129
129.129.129.129
Commands
pxe_flash_bios
power_status