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Oracle Hardware CLI Tools Overview
Installing Components Using the Oracle Hardware Management Pack Installer
Installing Hardware Management Pack Components Using Installer
CLI Tools Command Syntax and Conventions
CLI Tools Device-Naming Convention
Configuring the Device Boot Order
Configuring Individual CMOS Settings
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
remove spare Subcommand and Options
Sun IPMI System Management Driver 2.1
The BIOS configuration consists of the contents of the CMOS and the boot tables in the NVRAM. The command biosconfig -get_CMOS_dump captures the 256 bytes of CMOS, but it does not gather the boot table information from NVRAM. So this command might not capture the boot-order information, unless the bootable I/O configurations for the source and destination machines are the same. To generate a golden (known reliable) CMOS image, use BIOS setup to configure the host as you want.
# biosconfig -get_CMOS_dump golden.xml Copyright (C) SUN Microsystems 2009. BIOSconfig Utility Version 2.1 Build Date: Jul 16 2009 Build Time: 15:55:12 BIOSconfig Specification Version 2.4 Success
Note - The data between the <CMOS_DUMP> element tags contains raw CMOS data.
<BIOSCONFIG> <BIOSCONFIG_VERSION>2.1</BIOSCONFIG_VERSION> <SPEC_VERSION>2.4</SPEC_VERSION> <SP_NETWORK_CONFIG> <DISCOVERY></DISCOVERY> <IP></IP> <NETMASK></NETMASK> <GATEWAY></GATEWAY> </SP_NETWORK_CONFIG> <PASSWORD_CONFIG> <PASSWORD></PASSWORD> </PASSWORD_CONFIG> <BOOT_ORDER_OVERRIDE> <HELP_STRING>FIRST=Choose one of: pxe, cdrom, disk, floppy, bios, none</HELP_STRING> <FIRST></FIRST> <HELP_STRING>CLEAR_CMOS=Choose Yes, No or leave it empty, </HELP_STRING> <CLEAR_CMOS></CLEAR_CMOS> </BOOT_ORDER_OVERRIDE> <BOOT_DEVICE_PRIORITY> <B0> <DEVICE_NAME></DEVICE_NAME> <PCI-B-D-F></PCI-B-D-F> </B0> </BOOT_DEVICE_PRIORITY> <CMOS_DUMP> <OFFSET_00>00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.</OFFSET_00> <OFFSET_10>00.30.00.30.0E.80.02.FF.FF.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.</OFFSET_10> <OFFSET_20>00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.30.47.47.47.47.04.3A.</OFFSET_20> <OFFSET_30>FF.FF.20.85.90.F7.07.00.00.03.00.17.00.00.1F.3A.</OFFSET_30> <OFFSET_40>00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.</OFFSET_40> <OFFSET_50>00.00.FF.00.13.00.00.01.80.30.30.30.30.30.00.00.</OFFSET_50> <OFFSET_60>EF.40.41.42.43.44.45.46.47.08.09.0A.18.00.00.0B.</OFFSET_60> <OFFSET_70>00.03.0C.0D.0E.0F.10.11.00.00.00.00.12.13.14.15.</OFFSET_70> <OFFSET_80>11.24.26.06.46.14.00.16.02.00.F8.23.C8.17.20.07.</OFFSET_80> <OFFSET_90>18.20.19.1A.1B.1C.1D.9E.DF.9E.DE.21.02.03.04.05.</OFFSET_90> <OFFSET_A0>06.07.08.09.EA.2B.0B.0B.0B.4B.00.01.0F.00.0C.00.</OFFSET_A0> <OFFSET_B0>00.00.00.00.10.32.54.76.10.32.54.76.14.00.00.00.</OFFSET_B0> <OFFSET_C0>00.46.BC.00.00.00.00.00.00.80.C0.10.42.F9.FF.FF.</OFFSET_C0> <OFFSET_D0>83.00.80.9C.DE.1F.40.02.FA.52.55.E0.F1.F3.E7.FF.</OFFSET_D0> <OFFSET_E0>7C.00.01.04.00.00.05.04.03.04.00.02.07.02.17.00.</OFFSET_E0> <OFFSET_F0>17.03.01.05.08.01.03.04.00.03.00.09.01.00.05.00.</OFFSET_F0> </CMOS_DUMP> </BIOSCONFIG>
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