Re: Is there a way to use Linux on the E450 ?

In article <12h8k5daicvd3d1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, hennessy
<hennessy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As a server admin, having to sit thru each stupid BIOS accessory
screen (hit ctrl-c for LSI, hit ctrl-x for frobozz, hit F2 for BIOS, but
it's INS on this brand of motherboard and DEL on that brand and F10 on
this other one) is stupid and klunky.

For me (and I'm a Mac guy, so I know Open Firmware and EFI, but not so
much BIOS) the huge deal is being able to programmatically adjust boot
options. For instance it's no trouble at all to tell a server via SSH
to boot from the network on reboot, but then return to booting from the
hard disk; or to disable one processor on a multi-processor machine; or
to programmatically set a password to prevent booting from CD at 8AM
and remove the restriction at 6PM. It's entirely possible that you can
do this with a PC BIOS, but I don't know of any way.

--
Bubba Dave Pooser

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in
human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
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