On Thu, 14 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was curious about that myself. Okay, so it's kind of like the way LILO
> boots the kernel, right? It does the hardware initialization and triggers
> the MBR to get everything running, and then a command can be executed
> remotely in a standard shell prompt to update the BIOS. Is that about
> right?
The way we update our Alpha DS10 nodes is pretty instructive. The nodes
come up with Linux, then mount an init ram disk and join a scyld cluster.
If we need to update flash we run a little script called 'flange' that
does the deed.
In fact the need to update flash is rare. Part of the Scyld boot process
involves downloading a "real" kernel. So you only run that flash-based
kernel for a second or so.
ron
