LinuxBIOS instead of Dell BIOS

[Billy Mullins]

Hi,

I work with a couple small clusters of 
Dell PC's, and I'm wondering if someone would
be able to give me an educated guess as to whether or 
not LinuxBIOS will work out of the box for these PC's. 
I've looked at the supported mb list, and they don't
seem to be listed, but maybe...

The machines are the Dell Optiplex Gx240, they
use the standard Dell BIOS Release A02, and
have the Intel 845 chipset. 

What are the factors that play into whether or
not you can use LinuxBIOS out of the box(maybe
that is in a faq somewhere)?  For example, just
the chipset, strange motherboard quirks, etc...

Also, what would it take, and has anyone tried
to get a Dell PC to run LinuxBIOS?

Thanks much,
Billy Mullins

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Re: LinuxBIOS instead of Dell BIOS

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Billy Mullins wrote:

 What are the factors that play into whether or
 not you can use LinuxBIOS out of the box(maybe
 that is in a faq somewhere)?  For example, just
 the chipset, strange motherboard quirks, etc...

send me an lspci.

Dell has not been helpful however.

I would recommend you get the ISO at www.clustermatic.org, stamp out the
CDs, and use that for your cluster. You can get a lot of advantage of our
software even without linuxbios.

 Also, what would it take, and has anyone tried
 to get a Dell PC to run LinuxBIOS?

we've tried. They were not very supportive.

ron

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