I'm looking at putting a couple rack mounted systems in as a reorganisation of my computing environment - one an SMP IA32 type system (we'll see how many CPUs make sense) running as a file and computing server with Debian GNU/Linux, and the other likely only one CPU at present to run as an experimentation box - something I can put various BSD (both Debian and *elsewhere*) the Hurd and even a Debian GNU/Linux "Sid and even more unstable", and maybe even a development kernel partition if I get *really adventurous*. The current desktop box would become a combination firewall and X terminal, but it all raises one key question: with the second rack computer being meant to be rebooted regularly as I switch between various o/s, how reliable is it to control the boot process/selection from a separate machine? I know that Lilo and Grub do have the "serial" option for sending the info to another machine (I'm hoping that means that Minicom would handle it fine.) Any heads-up of use, given that it is one thing to point clients to the HOWTOs when setting things up, but I haven't regularly run a system this way - only installed and troubleshot them? -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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