Does anyone have any specific info on teh RLX 800i port of LinuxBIOS? I have the immediate need to get one of these blades up and running with Etherboot, but would like a little more information.
Does linuxBIOS actually reaplce the BIOS on the blade itself? If so, does the original functionality of the blade change at all?
Ay information would be greatly appreciated!
Mark
Mark Weinstein wrote:
Does linuxBIOS actually reaplce the BIOS on the blade itself? If so, does the original functionality of the blade change at all?
Yes. LinuxBIOS actually replaces the BIOS in the ROM/Flash on the blade.
Functionality does change. LinuxBIOS does not currently support Windowz or any OS that makes BIOS calls. Other function changes are based on obvious differences between bits set during config and init in the OEM BIOS and what's set in LinuxBIOS. With LinuxBIOS you can make any mods you wish, not just the few settings typically allowed in the OEM BIOS setup.
Bari
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Mark Weinstein wrote:
Does anyone have any specific info on teh RLX 800i port of LinuxBIOS? I have the immediate need to get one of these blades up and running with Etherboot, but would like a little more information.
We did that work here and I have a 6-node 800i rack that uses linuxbios. Suravee did the job in a week, which I thought was pretty fast. It works fine.
Does linuxBIOS actually reaplce the BIOS on the blade itself? If so, does the original functionality of the blade change at all?
LinuxBIOS replaces the BIOS completely.
Functionality: well, they boot much faster, and you don't need that crazy VGA-over-serial stuff.
We load etherboot.
There is no resoldering or anything. We load linuxbios into the main flash partition and if you don't like it, you can flip the jumper on the board and use the original bios.
ron
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