Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-13 Thread Mark Hahn
left afterwards - and I'm sepaking as someone who has tried capturing /dev/nvram settings and pushing them out to the updated nodes, which doesn't necessarily work. how does it fail? I'm guessing the issue is that there are LOTS more settings now than with the PC-AT (hypertransport frequency,

Re: [Beowulf] BIOS

2007-08-13 Thread John Hearns
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 w