John Hearns wrote: > Beat Rubischon wrote: >> >> It's probably the safest way to organize some students, give them a >> keyboard, a monitor and a memoy stick containing the flash files... >> > Having been involved in this exercise several times, ie. updating and > subequently resetting BIOS settings on large clusters, I agree with Beat. > The only reliable way to do it is with several people, monitors and USB > floppies or memory sticks.
Or spend money on "proper" server hardware. IBM provide their advanced setting utility: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/toolsctr/v1r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.xseries.tools.doc/config_tools_asu.html and HP have their smartstart scripting toolkit: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/toolkit/index.html which allows you to automate the twiddling of BIOS settings. Don't leave home without em. I'm sure the other tier 1 vendors have similar products, but those are the two I've used in anger. Cheers, Guy -- Dr. Guy Coates, Informatics System Group The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1HH, UK Tel: +44 (0)1223 834244 x 6925 Fax: +44 (0)1223 496802 -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
