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

- Devices and I/O Ports
    On-board SCSI Device                             [ (1) ]
    On-board SATA Device                             [ (2) ]
 
- Start Options
    - Startup Sequence
        First Startup Device                         [Network]
        Second Startup Device                        [CD/DVD-ROM]
        Third Startup Device                         [Removable]
        Fourth Startup Device                        [Hard Disk]
 
-        Select Hard Disk
            - Hard Drive                              [ (3) ]
 
      QuickBoot Mode                                  [Disabled]
      Boot Diagnostic Screen                         [Enabled]
      Boot Fail Count                                [Disabled]
      NumLock                                        [Off]
 
- Advanced Setup
    - Console Redirection
        Console Redirection                          [On-board COM A]
 
        Baud Rate                                     [ (4) ]
        Console Type                                 [vt100 plus]
 
    - Baseboard Management Controller
        COM port on BMC                               [ (5) ]
 

 

  1. Should be “Enabled” for SCSI models, and “Disabled” for SATA models.
  2. Should be “Enabled” for SCSI models, and “Enabled” for SATA models.
  3. Make sure that the desired boot device shows up first in the list.
  4. This should be set to 115200 when using terminal servers (the terminal servers should be set to match), and it should be set to 9600 if using SOL.  There are two exceptions to this—first, if the system has more than 4 GB of memory and the serial port is connected to an MRV LX terminal server, then the speed should be set to 9600 to work around a slow memory count issue.  Second, if the BMC CLI is to be used over the physical serial port, then this needs to be set to 19200 (this however is not normally supported—its only for special cases).
  5. This should be set to CLI to use SOL, or to use the BMC CLI, the “Change COM port Setting” has to be set to “yes” first to change this setting, but this is a transient option, so it is not listed above..



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

<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 cmosSATAEn Disabled
set cmosStartupPrimary1 Network
set cmosStartupPrimary2 CD/DVD-ROM
set cmosStartupPrimary3 Removable
set cmosStartupPrimary4 Hard Disk
set cmosPostMemTest Disabled
set cmosDiagScreenOnly Enabled
set cmosEnBootFail Disabled
set cmosNumlock Off
set cmosConsoleConfig On-board COM A
set cmosConsoleBaudRate 9600
set cmosConsoleType vt100 plus



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

Physical Serial

 

loaddefault all
set cmosSATAEn Disabled
set cmosStartupPrimary1 Network
set cmosStartupPrimary2 CD/DVD-ROM
set cmosStartupPrimary3 Removable
set cmosStartupPrimary4 Hard Disk
set cmosPostMemTest Disabled
set cmosDiagScreenOnly Enabled
set cmosEnBootFail Disabled
set cmosNumlock Off
set cmosConsoleConfig On-board COM A
set cmosConsoleBaudRate 115.2K
set cmosConsoleType vt100 plus
 
 

COM port on BMC setting

 
ipmicmd lan <bmc address or hostname> 623 md5 admin USERID PASSW0RD
f 0 32 2 (CLI)
f 0 32 0 (disable)