On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 07:38, Eric W Biederman wrote:
You can do serial from power on. Over the network is a more interesting problem, and hasn't been fully solved yet. Currently I connect the serial port to a box with a lot of serial ports, and that box is network accessible.
Eric, Do you know if there is an KVM switch equivalent for serial port ?? How do you monitor multiple LinuxBIOS boxes except using many minicom ??
Maybe some of these things are only really annoying when the don't exist and you have lots of hardware. For me I like the ability to do a full install including flashing the BIOS on 350 nodes in under 10 minutes.
How do you connect these 350 nodes "physically" to you console ?? Do you need many consoles or is there any think like "hub" the LAN ??
Ollie