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D-4 Sun Fire X2100 Server User Guide • April 2007
D.2 Accessing the Supplemental CD From
the Target Sun Fire X2100 Server
You will need the following to run diagnostics on a target Sun Fire X2100 Server:
■ PXE server configured as shown in Section D.1, “Setting up the Supplemental CD
Image on the PXE Server” on page D-2.
■ Sun Fire X2100 Server set up on the same network as the PXE server.
1. Connect the Sun Fire X2100 Server to the same network as the PXE server.
2. Power on (or reboot) the Sun Fire X2100 Server.
3. Press the F12 key during POST.
4. The Boot Message Screen located on your PXE server at /tftpboot/linux-
install/msgs/boot.msg displays on the screen.
5. Type suppl_aq at the prompt and press Return.
This allows the memdisk kernel and the bootable portion of the Supplemental CD to
download over the network and into the memory of the test machine.
Once downloaded, the bootable portion of the Supplemental CD boots.
6. The main menu of the bootable portion of the Supplemental CD displays on the
target Sun Fire X2100 Server.
7. You can now run the hardware diagnostics and/or update the System BIOS.
You can also update the BIOS using the procedure in Section D.3, “Flashing System
BIOS from a PXE Server” on page D-4.
See the Chapter 3 for information on running Pc-Check diagnostics software.
D.3 Flashing System BIOS from a PXE Server
The Supplemental CD includes a bootable pxe_flash image. After you copy the
image to a PXE server, you can run the pxe_flash.sh script on the PXE server to
flash (update) the BIOS for one or more systems.
The steps below are specifically written for a PXE server running Red Hat Linux
Release 3 or 4.