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...provides) from within PXELINUX and, based on this information, selectively perform an action? What I'm trying to do is provide a method of flashing the BIOS of our HP Linux workstations but different workstations use different methods of updating the BIOSes. For example, the xw9300 uses 'rompaq' where the xw8400 uses 'flashbin'. I have this working for the xw9300 workstations but I don't want to rely on people selecting the correct option, I rather parse 'Handle 0x0002' and choose automatically based on 'Product Name'. Google found this link for me (http:...

...here using HP DL380 G4 servers, i found a way to get the Digium TE410P with older firmware running on a HP-Compaq DL380 G4 Server! Here's the step-by-step description: 1. download the latest BIOS (in my case it was 4.04 from date: 06/02/2005) for the HP-Compaq DL380 G4 using the "Systems ROMPaq Firmware Upgrade Diskette for HP ProLiant DL480 G4 (P51) Servers" Link: http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/locate/69_5561.html#2 2. extract the ROMPaq to a diskette and upgrade your server by the instructions appearing during the BOOT from Diskette 3. after you have switched...

...does *not* have /p, and there's no more command, and I should have read the longer files before I started this. Fun with <ctrl-s> ensues. Finally, I find what are actually DOS config.sys files, with different extensions, and read them - they're one-liners, and find out how to run the rompaq.exe that runs the utility to flash the drives, and run it. And again. And again. And *finally* get the reason it's failing, and (to save the original name) copied the actual data from an 8.3 name into 7 char, which the utility demands: *exactly* seven chars, no more, no less. And unlike the De...