7.1. Flashing BIOS on Compute Nodes Using PXE

This procedure describes how to flash BIOS on a client node (e.g., compute node or viz tile node) by using the Rocks command line and PXE.

Note

Important Acknowledgement: We are grateful for the contribution of Jeremy Lawrence for describing the basic approach in his Rocks discussion list posting https://lists.sdsc.edu/pipermail/npaci-rocks-discussion/2005-June/012092.html.