User guide

Compaq Lights-Out DOS Utility D-3

CPQLODOS Utility

The CPQLODOS utility has been designed to fit on to a 1.44-MB floppy disk

with other utilities, DOS, and scripts. The utility runs under DOS 6, and the

Windows 95 floppy generated by the ROMPAQ software. It is not necessary

to use a memory expander to use this utility.

The utility is to be used only in a DOS environment (not a DOS shell under

Windows NT). If attempting to run CPQLODOS in a DOS shell under

Windows NT or Windows 2000, an error message similar to the following

displays:

CPQLODOS: RILOE bootstrap config utility.

Version 1.0

No PCI BIOS found.

This is common under NT and other OSs where raw memory access is not permitted.

Please run this only under real MS-DOS or Windows 95 DOS (not DOS window).

The utility performs updates except in the following circumstances:

■ A virtual floppy is inserted.

NOTE: When using CPQLODOS, applying a configuration involves resetting RILOE board,

which will wipe out the Virtual Floppy image and leave the server in an indeterminate

state. For any scenario in which CPQLODOS would be used on a virtual floppy, the

CPQLOCFG utility should be used.

The CPQLODOS utility will not run if a virtual floppy is detected in the RILOE. A message is

sent to the console telling the user to eject the floppy and retry.

■ A Remote Console session is active.

NOTE: If a Remote Console session is detected, and the operation would cause a reset of

the RILOE board, a warning message is displayed at the Remote Console informing the

user that the operation is going to reset the board and that the Remote Console session

needs to be re-established after 2 minutes.

■ A flash of the RILOE ROM is in progress. The program aborts in this

instance.

Output Logging

The command line option, /log, must be used to capture the output to a file

instead of using the DOS redirection “>” arrow. Using the “>” changes the

DOS environment sufficiently enough to cause problems accessing the 32-bit

memory space.