[Fwd: [Beowulf] linuxbios]

[Bari Ari]

Just forwarding this since there wasn't much of a response from the 
beowulf list.

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Subject: [Beowulf] linuxbios
Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:45:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Andrew Latham 
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To: beowulf

Just got my "Linux Journal" and was reading about the linuxbios.
It mentioned tyan (My fav.)
I searched tyan.com and found nothing related.
(just thought about googling tyan.com)
Any Tyan MB Linux BIOS users out there?

What are the success stories out there. I am starting to play and am already
downloading some stuff I just wondered what the group thinks about this.

http://www.clustermatic.org/
http://www.linuxbios.org

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[Hendricks David W.]

If you want to order a Tyan board with LinuxBIOS pre-loaded, you might 
need to go through some special ordering process... try asking Charlie 
Ding (cding at tyan.com).

Currently we're working on the S2885. VGA works to an extent now, we can 
use the testbios utility to init the VGA BIOS on a GeForce FX and X will 
run with the "nv" driver. The binary driver will load and X will start, 
but the screen goes corrupt. So long as it's not a driver issue, this 
might be fixed in the near future. Getting the CLI should be  first, and 
that will be nice since Ollie just got keyboard input working.

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Bari Ari wrote:
> Just forwarding this since there wasn't much of a response from the 
> beowulf list.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Beowulf] linuxbios
> Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 18:45:17 -0800 (PST)
> From: Andrew Latham 
> Reply-To: [e-mail]
> To: beowulf
>
> Just got my "Linux Journal" and was reading about the linuxbios.
> It mentioned tyan (My fav.)
> I searched tyan.com and found nothing related.
> (just thought about googling tyan.com)
> Any Tyan MB Linux BIOS users out there?
>
> What are the success stories out there. I am starting to play and am already
> downloading some stuff I just wondered what the group thinks about this.
>
> http://www.clustermatic.org/
> http://www.linuxbios.org
>
> =====
> /---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
> Andrew Latham -LathamA - Penguin Loving, Moralist Agnostic.
>
> What Is an agnostic? -  An agnostic thinks it impossible to know the truth
> in matters such as, a god or the future with which religions are concerned
> with. Or, if not impossible, at least impossible at the present time.
>
> LathamA.com - (lay-th-ham-eh) - [e-mail] - [e-mail]
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[ron minnich]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Hendricks David W. wrote:
> Currently we're working on the S2885. VGA works to an extent now, we can 
> use the testbios utility to init the VGA BIOS on a GeForce FX and X will 
> run with the "nv" driver. The binary driver will load and X will start, 
> but the screen goes corrupt. So long as it's not a driver issue, this 
> might be fixed in the near future. Getting the CLI should be  first, and 
> that will be nice since Ollie just got keyboard input working.

it's no big deal, we may have all vga fixed this afternoon.

ron

[ron minnich]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Bari Ari wrote:
> What are the success stories out there. I am starting to play and am already
> downloading some stuff I just wondered what the group thinks about this.

well there is the largest K8 cluster in the world, here at LANL, 1408 
nodes. Built by linuxbios, arima mobo, linuxbios support from linux 
networx.

Tyan will sell you K8 mobos with linuxbios on them. Hopefully the tyan
people reading this will get in touch with you.

There are a few other companies that will do K8 mobos with linuxbios but 
nothing public yet.

ron