ADLO, Framebuffer et al.

[Adam Sulmicki]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> > I'm not sure you want to always do that. Some of these expansion roms for
> > disk cards want to interact with you on bootup, which is crazy for a
> > cluster node (crazy in general, as far as I'm concerned).
>
> It is, but it would allow to boot off any scsi controller you put into
> such a box. Since quite some systems around have scsi only or in
> addition to IDE, this would be very nice to have.

me thinks you might be able to get away with using linux kernel+kexec
instead of the scsi bios. I guess depends on quality of drivers in kernel.



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