HP 441877-00B manual PXE configuration for HP NC-Series Intel adapters

oSLOT=0x7

•CACHEFLUSH parameter

oSet this to 1 to hook the system Disk Buffer Flush interrupt. This causes the driver to properly turn off the adapter when the system is shut down by Windows NT® during remote installation (push- install).

oCACHEFLUSH=1

oKnown Limitations: This driver does not support any application that uses protected mode, for example, EMM386. In addition, testing has demonstrated that the GHOST software application fails when used with this driver under Netx (VLMs are OK).

PXE configuration for HP NC-Series Intel adapters

The Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) of HP adapters has been upgraded to allow PXE functions to work with the HP ProLiant servers.

The Boot Agent software provides the ability to customize its behavior through its configuration options. Changing the Boot Agent configuration is required only the first time you add a new network adapter to a client computer within your network. You can configure the Boot Agent within any of the following environments:

•A pre-boot environment (before an operating system is loaded)

•A Windows® environment

•A DOS environment

Configuring the Boot Agent in a pre-boot environment

You can customize the behavior of the Boot Agent software through a pre-boot (operating system- independent) configuration program contained within the adapter's flash ROM. You can access this pre- boot configuration setup program each time the client computer cycles through the boot process.

When you power up or perform a hard or soft system reset, the following message is displayed during the initialization process of the Boot Agent firmware. It indicates that the boot agent is active.

Initializing Intel(R) Boot Agent Version 3.0.05

PXE 2.0 Build 078 (WFM 2.0), RPL V2.73

The following message is then displayed during the boot process to Boot Agent Services:

Intel(R) Boot Agent 3.0.05

Copyright(c) 1997-2000, Intel Corporation

Client MAC Address: 00 50 8B xx xx xx

GUID:00000000-0000-0000-000000000000

Client IP: 123.xxx.xxx.xxx MASK: 123.xxx.xxx.xxx

DHCP IP: 123.xxx.xxx.xxx

Gateway IP: 123.xxx.xxx.xxx

Changing the Boot Agent configuration settings

To access the Boot Agent Setup Menu, immediately after the initialization messages, and before any subsequent message is displayed, quickly press Ctrl+S. This menu provides the ability to customize the "Boot Agent Configuration Settings."

The Boot Agent setup menu displays a list of configuration settings on the left, and their corresponding values on the right. Key functions are described near the bottom of the menu. The menu indicates how to change the values of settings.

To access a brief Help description of a setting, select it.

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