Re: diskless cluster
> Your BIOS will let you use LAN as your primary boot device? My ECS board
> has a Realtek 8100 chip embedded, no PROM to be found, so my IBA must be
> in the BIOS, I suppose.
Yes, recent bios generally have a "LAN" option which passes control to the
eprom on the ethernet card. Older ones just went to the card eprom so long
as the chip was there, with a valid program. I hear in the Etherboot lists
that you can burn the image itself in the motherboard bios, in some cases,
but we never tried that.
Cheers,
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Jorge L. deLyra, Associate Professor of Physics
The University of Sao Paulo, IFUSP-DFMA
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