Is is possible to increase the PXE timeout in the NIC BIOS? Set the timeout long enough and it'll keep asking for the PXE kernel until the server has come online. I know this means a bios change to every machine manually, but at least there's no maintenance
A ------------- Aaron Macks([email protected]) http://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/ My sheep has seven gall bladders, that makes me the King of the Universe! On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Paul Beltrani <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally, I'd go with the thumb drive solution. They're cheap in bulk > and it's a simple fix. However, that doesn't answer your question. > > Re rebooting directly from MBR > I can't think of anything that runs completely out of the MBR. (Perhaps > the original version of GRUB? It's been too long and I don't recall.) > While GRUB2 looks for configs/menus in a boot partition, it is FOSS and > you may be able to modify it to simply do a system reset. See > https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ > > -- Paul Beltrani > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Alex Aminoff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> On 10/7/2016 11:02 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: >> >>> >>> Can you install a tiny boot partition containing etherboot/gpxe >>> (http://etherboot.org/wiki/howtos) which will then try to PXE >>> boot indefinitely? It fits on a floppy or tiny USB, too. >>> >>> That would be a backup plan if we can not find something that fits in >> just the MBR. The local HDs already have partitions on them, they could be >> re-partitioned to create space for a small partition as you suggest, but >> that would be a hassle. We have also thought of using a USB stick, but >> those are unreliable and we would have to buy and configure 20-30 USB >> sticks. >> >> >> Can you alter the BIOS config to not boot off local disk? >>> >> >> Unfortunately the BIOS does not re-try booting from the beginning after >> trying all the options in the boot order. It gives you a screen that says >> something like "no OS found, press any key to reboot". >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> bblisa mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa >> > > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa >
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