Honest Guvnor wrote: > On 9/25/07, John Summerfield <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> these are all exactly the same model & revision? Same BIOS version? > > Yes. > >> Does dumping NVRAM and restoring it not work? > > Yes it works in that the node cleanly reboots afterwards. > Unfortunately, if any of the settings are changed in order to enable > PXE booting the reboot fails because of a checksum test against the > checksum of the previous BIOS settings. I think I need to find a way > to disable the checksum, get at the checksum to replace it or persuade > it to boot with "corrupted" BIOS settings. > Just to be entirely certain you are saying what I think, if you set the BIOS the way you want it on one, then copy it to others, that it does not work? I would think that if you are copying all of the BIOS settings, then the checksum should be right. I think you should ask this question on nahant-list because I'm sure there's an AMD bloke there who's done exactly this. It might be that someone there can advise how to calculate the checksum and fix it. -- Cheers John -- spambait [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] Please do not reply off-list