Problems using DTK to configure BMC and BIOS on PE1435 nodes

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:52:14PM -0700, Chance Reschke wrote:
> 3) Why does Dell ship system with the stupid EULA crap on first  
> boot?  We ordered these systems with no OS installed, so they should  
> all have PXE booted right out of the box when they discovered no OS  
> on the HDD.  Instead, even if the boot order stuff had worked  
> properly, we would have been forced to plug a keyboard into every  
> system and either press F12 once to get the systemto try PXE booting  
> or the space bar several times to get past the EULA crap.  Why would  
> Dell do this?

Not trying to address all the other questions here, but go talk to
your Dell sales team about the EULA prompt.  I know there's a way to
order the systems without that, as our HPC Clusters absolutely don't
display that, exactly for the reasons you note.

Thanks,
Matt

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