Mark Weinstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Eric, > > Can you help me? I was reading an article about the LinuxBIOS and had a few > questions. Your name was at the bottom of the article, so I thought I would > drop you a line. I hope you donšt mind and if you do, please disregard this > message. :) Bear with me here... I am new to the whole LinuxBIOS thing and > am having a hard time trying to find answers.
Asking on the LinuxBIOS list is probably the best way, questions and some answers forwarded there. > 1) I use Linux boxes in a clustering environment and would LOVE to have the > nodes boot themselves without having to load images from the network, etc. > Is this doable? Personally I think booting from a local hard driver is a less manageable way to do things. I have booted a 1000 node cluster over the network in under a minute. But there is support for booting from a hard drive. > 2) I use a RedHat 2.4.18 based kernel with quite a few kernel mods. How > much space is on the DOC (is it 8mb?) and will the OS fit on it? The DOC has 8MByte of space, yes. I don't use it and I don't see the need you can load a kernel from other places. And in fact I consider it a poor choice for any but an embedded user to hard code their kernel, into the ROM. > 3) If the answer to #2 is yes, then can you reflash the chips from a server > or some other machine and then have them reboot without taking the machines > apart each time? Yes. Though I try and keep reflashing down to just BIOS upgrades and not kernel upgrades. > 4) If you can coot the OS from he chip, how do you have access to all of > your libraries, etc? Would you simply mount SOME file shares with libraries > and apps via NFS? > > I am VERY interested in building some servers with LinuxBIOS, but I am also > very confused. :) Any help you can give me would be GREATLY > appreciated! Talk to the other people on the list. I have provided the answers I can, but you are coming from an extremely different perspective than I am. Eric _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios