HP Vectra VLi8 (intel 440bx)

[Mike Jackson]

Hi,
  I just bought 5 old vectra vli8 500 Mhz P3 boxes to build a cluster with for learning purposes. I 
obviously don't want to be dragging out my spare monitor every time I want to change something in 
the BIOS.

As far as I can tell, they have the Intel 440bx motherboard. I am unclear as to whether this 
board is supported or not.

The status page says:

This is a template for generic 440bx boards, see the smartcore-p3

digitallogic/smartcore-p3 			stable 	Ron Minnich 	[e-mail] 	16/12/2002 	Now works as of 
current CVS
digitallogic/smartcore-p5 			stable 	Ron Minnich 	[e-mail] 	01/06/2002

I have no idea if my Intel 440bx boards are "digitallogic/smartcore".

Please advise if I can use LinuxBIOS or not. Also, please advise if you know how I can change the 
BIOS settings remotely using open-source tools. The cluster nodes are running freebsd 5.3.

Thanks,
Mike

[Richard Smith]

> As far as I can tell, they have the Intel 440bx motherboard. I am unclear as to whether this
> board is supported or not.

send us a lspci -v  and then look on the board and find out what
superIO you have.

The chipset is supppoted but only under V1 for now..  Depending on
what was done with the smbus the motherboard may or may not work out
of the box
> The status page says:
> This is a template for generic 440bx boards, see the smartcore-p3

I would say thats old.  I think the Bitworks/ims board might be a
better template.

change the
> BIOS settings remotely using open-source tools. The cluster nodes are running freebsd 5.3.

Not sure what you mean here.  With linuxBIOS there really aren't any settings.