On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Bill Bogstad wrote:
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?
Yes, of course you are right. I meant to be sarcastic, but given the state
of the industry I can see that wasn't obvious.
dan feenberg
Bill Bogstad
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