Etherboot in the BIOS?

Jeff Noxon jeff at planetfall.com
Fri Aug 15 10:47:01 CEST 2003


On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 08:59:53AM -0600, ron minnich wrote:
> > Purchase yourself a BIOS Savior.  They're about $20-$25 depending
> 
> This is ok on a onesy-twosy scale, but it won't help people who are 
> looking at larger numbers of nodes. It's a wondeful too however.

Agreed, but I think the poster's concern was rendering a machine
unbootable.  Once LinuxBIOS is working on one node, it can be copied
to the others easily and without much concern.  I still don't have LB
working properly on my Tyan TigerMPX board.  It's nice to have a way to
continue booting it ;)

Regards,

Jeff



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