Set BIOS to defaults and set only these settings (that is, everything else should remain at defaults):

- Devices and I/O Ports
    - Serial Port A                                  [ Auto-configure ]
    - Serial Port B                                  [ Auto-configure ]
    - Remote Console Redirection
        Remote Console Active                        [ Enabled ]
        Remote Console COM Port                              [ (1) ]
        Remote Console Baud Rate                     [ (2) ]
        Remote Console Text Emulation                [ VT100/VT220 ]
        Remote Console Keyboard Emulation            [ VT100/VT220 ]
        Remote Console Active After Boot             [ Enabled ]
        Remote Console Flow Control                  [ Hardware ]
 
- Start Options
    - Startup Sequence Options
        Third Startup Device                         [ Network ]
        Fourth Startup Device                        [ Hard Disk 0 ]
 
    Planar Ethernet PXE/DHCP                          [ (3) ]
    Run PXE only on selected Planar Ethernet         [ (3) ]
    Boot Fail Count                                  [ Disabled ]
 
- Advanced Setup
    - PCI Settings
        - PCI ROM Control Execution
            Slot 1(Planar Daughtercard Slot)         [ (4) ]
 
        - BMC Network Configuration
            IP Settings
            IP Address                               [ (5) ]   
            Subnet Mask                                      [ (5) ]   
            Gateway                                  [ (5) ]



  1. This should be set to COM 1 when using terminal servers, COM 2 when using SOL.
  2. This should be set to 115200 when using terminal servers, 19200 when using SOL.
  3. This should be set to the on-board Ethernet device the system will boot from only (it can be set to both--"Planar Ethernet 1 and 2" for redundancy but this can cause interruptions in SOL). If problems with SOL are seen at PXE boot time, then this can be set to the NIC that the system is not set to do SOL over, but this will require both NICs to be cabled. If configuring to boot from both NICs, "Run PXE only on selected Planar Ethernet" should be "Disabled", otherwise it should be "Enabled".
  4. This should be left at the default of "Enabled", except in the case of adapters that have large option ROMs which cause 1801 errors on boot, and are not being used as boot devices. Typically, these will be fibre channel host bus adapters. In those cases, the setting should be changed to "Disabled" for the slots in which those adapters are installed. This may also be set to "Disabled" for slots with Myrinet cards with badly behaved network boot ROMs.
  5. These settings should be set automatically when setting up SOL using the management module web interface.



To set BIOS and BMC settings that are in the F1 setup with ASU:

<asu> is either asu or asu64

<asu> batch <settings file>

where <settings file> is the following for nodes using SOL for remote console access

SOL

 

loaddefault all
set CMOS_SerialA "Auto-configure"
set CMOS_SerialB "Auto-configure"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleEnable "Enabled"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleComPort "COM 2"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleEmulation "VT100/VT220"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleKybdEmul "VT100/VT220"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleBootEnable "Enabled"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleFlowCtrl "Hardware"
set CMOS_ENET_PXE_ENABLE "Planar Ethernet 1"
set CMOS_PXE_NICSelect_Enable "Enabled"
set CMOS_PostBootFailRequired "Disabled"
set CMOS_ROMControlSlot1 "Disabled"
set CMOS_ROMControlSlot2 "Disabled"



or <settings file> is as follows for nodes using physical serial (usually through a terminal server) for remote console access

Physical Serial

 

loaddefault all
set CMOS_SerialA "Auto-configure"
set CMOS_SerialB "Auto-configure"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleEnable "Enabled"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleComPort "COM 1"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleBaud "115200"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleEmulation "VT100/VT220"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleKybdEmul "VT100/VT220"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleBootEnable "Enabled"
set CMOS_RemoteConsoleFlowCtrl "Hardware"
set CMOS_ENET_PXE_ENABLE "Planar Ethernet 1"
set CMOS_PXE_NICSelect_Enable "Enabled"
set CMOS_PostBootFailRequired "Disabled"
set CMOS_ROMControlSlot1 "Disabled"
set CMOS_ROMControlSlot2 "Disabled"
 
 

Note that the Primary Boot Sequence options are no longer in the ASU definition files for HS21, so the startup sequence should be set using the BladeCenter-H Advanced Management Module web interface, or using the xCAT rbootseq command.  The order should be “cdrom, floppy, network, harddrive0”.  The rbootseq command to use specifically would be

rbootseq <noderange> c,f,n,hd0