[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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?
Yes. You just run a standard linux user space program. We have
yet to standardize on an implementation of this as getting a BIOS
going and figuring out how to organize the code etc, have been taking
up the developer bandwidth. But coding something like this up is
pretty straight forward.
The truly interesting thing is that if I can telnet into a node and
run a program to reflash the BIOS or change it's settings I can also
build wrappers around that functionallity so the user interface can be
a java applet loaded from a browser sitting half way across the world
from the machines I am working on. And I if I want to change
parameters on 100 machines at once I can just select all of them from
a gui and change their parameters.
Though it is probably a lot easier write a shell command that just
does:
for node in n1 n2 n3 n4 n5 n7 n8 n12 n15 ; do
rsh $node update_settings
done
