Purchase yourself a BIOS Savior. They're about $20-$25 depending on the motherboard and provide absolute protection against screwups. http://www.pcmods.com/
Basically you end up with two BIOS chips on the motherboard, and a little toggle switch to select one or the other. That way you don't need to "hotswap" BIOS chips, either.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:41:42AM -0500, Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp wrote:
According to the FAQ, it's possible to boot Linux using Etherboot with LinuxBIOS. This appears to be a pretty simple and straightforward process, but I was wandering if it were possible to render the system unbootable? That is, is it posible that overwriting the BIOS will cause boot to fail (because of misconfiguration, etc.)? If this happens, is there anyway to recover? What are the pitfalls and how can I avoid them?
The idea of overwriting the BIOS makes me a bit nervous, but the potential benefits of this boot-up process could save us quite a bit when it comes to configuring our clustered systems.
Thanks, Sterling