<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/8/12, Robert G. Brown <<a href="mailto:rgb@phy.duke.edu">rgb@phy.duke.edu</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Carsten Aulbert wrote:<br><br>> Thanks for the link. In principle we have everything working already<br>> that way, but want to "excel" a bit more:<br><br>No, no, no. You want to "ooffice" a little more...;-)
<br><br>><br>> (1) Right now we use memdisk from the syslinux/isolinux family to boot<br>> the dos image. Booting an exact floppy image works fine, but for some<br>> part in (2) we might need more space than a 2,88 MB floppy or its
<br>> extended pendant gives to us. Thus we are currently trying to boot a hd<br>> image which sems to be a bit trickier than a simple floppy image<br>> (getting boot code, partition table right for example).<br>
><br>> (2) We want to have some feedback from the process and don't want to<br>> have an automatic reboot after a possible failure because in the worst<br>> case this might "brickify" a node. Once I had the problem, that
<br>> automatic BIOS flashing worked, but one node - which looked similar but<br>> behaved differently - was not able to finish the flashing procedure<br>> successfully. Since I was monitoring the node I was able to redo the
<br>> flashing with a different option [1].<br>><br>> Anyway, that's the reason why we want to include a dhcp client and some<br>> means, possibly a ssh or rsh client along with the needed packetdriver<br>
> to the image and notify the server that way, that it successfully<br>> flashed the BIOS and set our custom settings correctly. Only after that<br>> the nodes should continue FAIing.<br><br>No, that's reasonable -- I just didn't understand.
Autoexec.bat is dumb<br>as a post in comparison even with /bin/sh, too. <br></blockquote></div><br>It's dumb, but not so dumb. :-)<br>Th syntax is crappy but it has this feature:<br><a href="http://www.robvanderwoude.com/errorlevel.html">
http://www.robvanderwoude.com/errorlevel.html</a><br><br>OBS: REM is a comment initiator like #.<br><br><br>
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