Re: RLX 800i Info?
Mark Weinstein wrote: I don't think that should be a problem. What I am concerned about the most is that from what I understand, since teh RLX can remotely manage/monitor their blades, I didnt know if you would still be able to poll or information or not. Have you done one of these installs? Is it a simple pop-in chip or do you have to REALLY hack the board and resolder, etc? That worries me a little. :) Also, is there any possible way to remotely reboot a LinuxBIOS machine from a master server other than the obsious shutdown or reboot commands? According to Ron: we committed support for the RLX 800i blades. There are PIII-based blades that use the Micron 21PAD northbridge. The 21PAD is a fantastic design and the company has been very helpful with information. The RLX blade is also quite nice. Due to space limitations on the flash, we can only fit Etherboot or 9load; Linux kernel is too large at present Maybe Ron can shed more light on the RLX port. Bari. ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
Re: RLX 800i Info?
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Mark Weinstein wrote: Does anyone have any specific info on teh RLX 800i port of LinuxBIOS? I have the immediate need to get one of these blades up and running with Etherboot, but would like a little more information. We did that work here and I have a 6-node 800i rack that uses linuxbios. Suravee did the job in a week, which I thought was pretty fast. It works fine. Does linuxBIOS actually reaplce the BIOS on the blade itself? If so, does the original functionality of the blade change at all? LinuxBIOS replaces the BIOS completely. Functionality: well, they boot much faster, and you don't need that crazy VGA-over-serial stuff. We load etherboot. There is no resoldering or anything. We load linuxbios into the main flash partition and if you don't like it, you can flip the jumper on the board and use the original bios. ron ___ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
