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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
Commands That Produce Unrelated, Innocuous, Extra Output
fwupdate Command-Line Interface
remove spare Subcommand and Options
Sun IPMI System Management Driver 2.1
You must run biosconfig as root (Linux, Solaris) or Administrator (Windows) because it needs to use drivers that are in read— and write-protected physical address space.
For more on biosconfig for Solaris, see: biosconfig for Solaris OS.
Linux versions of biosconfig also depend on access to /dev/nvram to guarantee serialized access to the CMOS. RHEL4 distributions do not seem to include this device by default, RHEL5 and SLES do. For you to use /dev/nvram, the driver needs to be compiled into the kernel (or loaded as a module), and /dev/nvram must exist (root can create it using mknod /dev/nvram c 10 144).
For information on biosconfig for Windows, see: biosconfig for Windows.
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