John Hearns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This may be a stupid question, > but it is a problem which lots of centres have > worked on, and have solutions for. > Please bear with me! > > > When installing a fresh node in a cluster, > we would like it the first time to boot over the > network. The second time it boots, it should boot from > its own hard disk. > There is a solution for this in these parts - but it is > not very elegant. > Can I first ask what methods people have for doing this? > Are there any blindingly elegant ways of doing it? > > > Also, if we started to use Linuxbios, is there any way > Linuxbios could help with this task. > I suppose that I am rather naively asking "Hey, in Linuxbios > is there any way of easily chaning the boot order after I have > booted for the first time"
Currently the bootloader picture is a little sketchy. Changing the BIOS options from Linux is easy but it won't help until a little later when there is support for a boot order in LinuxBIOS. Booting is currently a very active area of reasearch with LinuxBIOS, and we are just cracking this problem. I sould be very surprised if in a couple of months changing the boot order from Linux isn't a trivial operation. Eric
