[Gllug] I hate PC BIOSes

[Doug Winter]

On Thu 06 May John Hearns wrote:
> Told you so :-)

Yeah.  I hate flashing BIOSes though :)
 
> Seriously though, I asked that as I had experience with early HDAMA
> Opteron motherboards. Two BIOS updates cleared problems we had.
> And I can tell you that BIOS updates on a 35 node cluster aren't fun.
> 
> (These days we might do a cluster-wide update via PXE booting.
> At the time we almost had that working.)

I'd have thought this was a perfect time for LinuxBIOS, if your mobos
support it?  AIUI being able to flash from within the running OS is a
major bonus for clusters.

doug.

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