I have not built clusters over 200 nodes, but I almost never
go into the BIOS for configurations. And the systems that
I have used, include serial access within the BIOS. And
adding PXE roms will make things nicer on the install front.
But my current system is a single floppy, and that works
well.
The best people to determin if it is nessesary is Yahoo and Hotmail.
Since they have worked with these issues in the thousands of machines.
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Stefan Molnar wrote:
>
> > Why? PXE will allow net installs, or diskless. And Serial Console
> > is already supported. ( On some high end machines serial console works
> > in the prom as well).
>
> well, now you see why i'm not pushing linuxbios too hard in the freebsd
> world. If you think PXE and serial consoles fix your cluster problems,
> then you haven't build anything really big. PXE is not a good design.
> But I'm not interested in arguing ...
>
> ron
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