Re: [Ipmitool-devel] boot disk

[Vernon M. <ve...@us...>]

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 14:28, Matthew Laird wrote:
> Does anyone know of a "live" linux CD which has ipmitool and the
> approapriate kernel modules built into it?
>
> I have some machines which I need to tweak the ipmi settings in the bios,
> but I can't boot them off the hard drive.  It'd be really nice if there
> was a bootable cd out there which had these tools available to change the
> settings without having a working OS on the hard drive.
>
> Anyone know of such a thing?

You could try using a lan/lanplus interface...  That would require you to set 
up the lan parameters through the local interface first, but once that is 
done, all your changes should be able to be made via the lan interface.

--Vernon