Re: [BProc] problem booting 2.4.19 on Tyan 2466 dual nodes

[steven j. <py...@li...>]

Greetings,

Agreed, PXE has it's limits. I usually avoid them by doing a sequenced
power up (nicer to the mains as well). I'm considering getting
LinuxBIOS/Etherboot to do multicast.

G'day,
sjames


On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Wilton Wong wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, steven james wrote:
> 
> > For a test, it might be worth trying either NFS root mount, hda1, or even
> > a floppy as a root filesystem to eliminate the ramdisk as a problem.
> 
> I also use PXE here and we only run into problems when we boot up 50+ nodes at
> the same time, the master node can't handle the network stress and PXE is not
> smart enough to handel it ;)
> 
> - Wilton
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