[Beowulf] PXE Booting and Interface Bonding

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Sat Mar 20 16:06:08 PDT 2010


"David B. Ritch" <david.ritch.lists at gmail.com> writes:

> Eric,
>
> Thank you - that sounds like a good idea.  However, I'm not sure that
> we'll have an opportunity to replace the bootloader on our
> motherboards.  I'd love to see that become standard!
>
> Is gPXE widely used?  How else would one approach this?

Yes.  At least I have seen it as the boot firmware on several
10Gig nics.

You can also get gPXE to boot off of just about anything, so
you should be able to at least try it out.

Eric



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