On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: >> Even with IPMI, you still need a crash cart of some type to initially >> set up IPMI in the system's BIOS. At the minimum, you need to set the IP >> address that the IMPI interface will listen on (if it's a shared NIC > > afaik, not really. here's what I prefer: cluster nodes normally come out of > the box with BIOS configured to try booting over the net before local HD. > sometimes this is conditional on the local HD having no active partition.
Thanks Mark. I am getting more and more of the feeling that if I cannot make a node behave and present a usable command line via PXE it is likely so far gone that a trip to the server room is inevitible and IPMI is unlikely to save the day. But that's just my workflow. -- Rahul _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
