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(Linux and Solaris) Using Component Manager
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(Windows) Using Component Manager
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Installing and Removing the Sun System Management Driver on Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2008 64-bit
How to View biosconfig Command Options
How to View biosconfig Version Information
Configuring the Device Boot Order
How to Set the First Boot Device for the Next Boot
How to Make a Persistent Change to Boot Order
How to Specify a Subset of Strings and a Subset of the Boot List
How to Change Boot Order Based on the PCI Bus, Device, or Function
How to Configure the BIOS CMOS Using a Golden CMOS Image
How to Retrieve Static CMOS Settings
How to Configure a Dynamic Setting
How to Configure NET0_Option_ROM
How to View Chipset-Related Settings
How to Configure System Powered Off
How to Turn Off Quick Boot and Power Off Options
Commands That Produce Unrelated, Innocuous, Extra Output
fwupdate Command-Line Interface
How To Show a Detailed Listing
How To Show a Brief Listing of a Disk
remove spare Subcommand and Options
How to Remove a Spare Disk or a RAID Volume
How to Modify a RAID Volume Name
How to Export an Inventory to a File
How to Configure RAID Volumes from a File
Sun IPMI System Management Driver 2.1
How to Install Sun IPMI System Management Driver 2.1 Manually
How to Perform an Unattended Installation of the Sun IPMI System Management Driver 2.1
How to Verify ipmitool Installation
How to Configure for PXE to Boot First
How to Configure for the Hard Drive to Boot First
How to Configure for Any CD/DVD to Boot First
How to Configure for Any Floppy or Removable Media to Boot First
biosconfig provides two commands to manage individual CMOS settings:
-get_bios_settings
Gets CMOS settings from the platform.
-set_bios_settings
Sets CMOS settings on the platform.
To use these commands you can:
Use -get_bios_settings to generate an XML file that describes the current settings.
Edit that XML file so that it specifies the settings.
Use -set_bios_settings to change settings in CMOS.
Note - Values for the settings vary depending on your server type. biosconfig reads the host's BIOS image and the platform's CMOS to find the setup questions (the strings displayed in BIOS setup), the optimal default values, the current settings, and the permitted settings. The XML file structure matches the menu hierarchy in BIOS setup. When using -set_bios_settings, you can provide a subset of the XML file output by using -get_bios_settings so that it includes only the settings that you wish to make.
The names in the output XML file match the names in the setup menus; the only difference is that the spaces are replaced with underscores (_). For example, the Quick Boot entry in the Boot Settings Configuration submenu in the Boot menu of BIOS setup is specified like this:
<BIOSCONFIG> <SETUP_CONFIG> <Boot> <Boot_Settings_Configuration> <Quick_Boot>
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