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Subject:    [ydl-gen] Headless Booting an Xserve...
From:       "Wujciak, James (US SSA)" <james.wujciak () baesystems ! com>
Date:       2006-01-17 12:34:37
Message-ID: DDE4FF21A5EE6C47A3A88C2FA0740577037BBE18 () blums0005 ! na ! baesystems ! com
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I am setting up headless Xserve slave nodes (G5s). I have bootable disks
that boot 'automatically through default settings': if there is a video
card installed. But if there is  no video card I have to intervene with
Open Firmware commands that direct the boot to hd:2,\\yaboot. 

I know that through an OF command the boot-device may be set- but that
will not persit through an OF reset. Is there a way to set the
boot-device in the ofboot.b file (or similar file) to make this change
follow the boot disk?

Jim Wujciak

 


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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I am setting up headless Xserve slave nodes (G5s). I have bootable
disks that boot 'automatically through default settings': if there is a video
card installed. But if there is &nbsp;no video card I have to intervene with Open
Firmware commands that direct the boot to hd:2,\\yaboot. <br>
<br>
I know that through an OF command the boot-device may be set- but that will not
persit through an OF reset. Is there a way to set the boot-device in the ofboot.b
file (or similar file) to make this change follow the boot disk?<br>
<br>
Jim Wujciak</span></font></p>

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