On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Daniel Feenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Aaron Macks wrote: > >> 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 > > > BIOS parameters to set a go back to the first option on failure of all boot > options are extremely rare, but I have it at least once. I have never seen a > BIOS with an adjustable timeout in the CMOS. > > Anyway, why repeat the boot automatically, when the operator can log in to > the IPMI and do it manually?
Downtime? If there has been a power failure there may be lots of other things which require human intervention. If this part of recovery can be automated without negative consequences/high costs, why not do so? Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
