General LinuxBIOS Questions

ollie lho ollie at sis.com.tw
Mon Sep 16 20:42:00 CEST 2002


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





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