User guide

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

Mgmt IP Addr

129.129.129.129

Commands

pxe_flash_bios

power_status