Re: Changing BIOS settings on nodes

2007-09-27 Thread Honest Guvnor
On 9/27/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to be entirely certain you are saying what I think, if you set the BIOS the way you want it on one, then copy it to others, that it does not work? The evidence suggests that the copying is successful but on reboot the BIOS considers

Re: Changing BIOS settings on nodes

2007-09-27 Thread Daniel Widyono
I would think that if you are copying all of the BIOS settings, then the checksum should be right. Why? As I see it, the checksum is presumably created and stored somewhere when you select save in the BIOS setting program. Since this has been bypassed by using /dev/nvram the stored

Re: Changing BIOS settings on nodes

2007-09-26 Thread Honest Guvnor
On 9/25/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: these are all exactly the same model revision? Same BIOS version? Yes. Does dumping NVRAM and restoring it not work? Yes it works in that the node cleanly reboots afterwards. Unfortunately, if any of the settings are changed in order to

Re: Changing BIOS settings on nodes

2007-09-26 Thread John Summerfield
Honest Guvnor wrote: On 9/25/07, John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: these are all exactly the same model revision? Same BIOS version? Yes. Does dumping NVRAM and restoring it not work? Yes it works in that the node cleanly reboots afterwards. Unfortunately, if any of the settings

Re: Changing BIOS settings on nodes

2007-09-25 Thread John Summerfield
Honest Guvnor wrote: On 9/25/07, Michael Mansour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What type of hardware is this, branded (HP, IBM, etc) or non-branded? The motherboard is an Intel D875PBZ which is a desktop board from a few years ago for a Pentium 4. It uses AMIBIOS. The case, power supply, floppy,