Planning to Use “MS-DOS as a PXE Automation Option” and Have Emulex Fibre Cards?

If you’re planning to use ianatkin’s suggestion of “MS-DOS as a PXE Automation Option”, you use Emulex Fibre Cards, and you would you like to configure them remotely, this is the program you need, DosLpCfg from Emulex.

DosLpCfg is for use with MS-DOS, FreeDOS, IBM PC DOS and DR DOS operating systems.

You can use the utility to do the following:

• View information on an Emulex HBA
• Reset the HBA
• Download firmware and boot code files
• Select a boot device
• Read and update World Wide Names (WWNs)
• Enable BootBIOS
• Update configuration regions
• Set the HBA to use soft jumpers
• Run diagnostic tests
• Read and process script files

Get it here: http://www-dl.emulex.com/support/hardware/utilitie...

To get help on using the tool run:

C:\DosLpCfg>doslpcfg help

Here is the help on setting the bootdevice using DosLpCfg:

C:\DosLpCfg>doslpcfg help setbootdevice
Command: help setbootdevice
Syntax: setbootdevice n=adapter w0=WWPN0 w1=WWPN1 l=LUN t=topology
Command completed, NO Error!

Also you can create a list of tasks in a text file and then run them e.g.:

reset n=all
enableboot n=1 i=1
setbootdevice n=1 w0=00000000 w1=00000000 l=00 t=1

The command line to run this is:

C:\DosLpCfg>DosLpCfg @textfile.txt