I also would like to know if there is a manual way to skip the memory check. We have C460 M4s as well that have 1.5TB of RAM and if we are using DHCP/PXE to rebuild them and miss the ~3 second window to network boot during the 10+ minute boot time (mostly due to the RAM/system check) we have to wait another 10+ minutes to get the opportunity to catch the PXE boot.
I believe I was told by one of our Cisco reps that there is no current option to skip or disable the memory check. Our Dell servers have the option to disable the check and it would be nice if Cisco could do the same. At least this way, I could disable the check during maintenance and re-enable it afterwards if Cisco chooses not to allow for a manual "skip" option.
Aside from why I would like a manual skip option (PXE boot), it seems that from a KVM session a user should be able to skip that check if they want to. Some of our database servers are bare metal and I'd prefer leave the memory check in place by default but if someone is performing maintenance on them, we should be allowed to skip that check so we can bring the server back online ASAP. It's actually very annoying, especially since my government customer pays for my time by the hour - I'm sure he'd be glad to know he doesn't pay for 10 minutes of my time every time I have to perform maintenance on a server via the KVM.
