topic Re: Change BIOS boot order from runlevel 5 in Operating System - Linux

Change BIOS boot order from runlevel 5

Alessandro Pilati — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:16:02 GMT

Hi to all,
I'm trying to find a way to change the boot order while the OS is up(eg. cdrom-floppy-hd to hd-cdrom-floppy).
I have a RHEL4 Upd 3 on a DL385 server, and I saw that for Mandriva/Mandrake on IA64 there is the "efibootmgr"... does it exist also for RHEL4 on x86_64?

Thank you in advance,
Alessandro

Re: Change BIOS boot order from runlevel 5

Ivan Ferreira — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:24:16 GMT

The efibootmgr is only for Itanium platforms. What do you want to achieve? Maybe there is another option, like defining different boot entries en grub and use the fallback option.

Re: Change BIOS boot order from runlevel 5

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 08:47:33 GMT

Shalom,

Thats a hardware function. If its not built into iLo the answer is no you can not.

SEP

Re: Change BIOS boot order from runlevel 5

Matti_Kurkela — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 01:07:25 GMT

If the server has an up-to-date "hpasm" management driver package, there should be a tool named "hpasmcli". It allows you to change some BIOS settings, but not all of them. I don't know if it is capable enough for your needs.