<div dir="ltr"><div>Is is possible to increase the PXE timeout in the NIC BIOS? Set the timeout long enough and it'll keep asking for the PXE kernel until the server has come online. I know this means a bios change to every machine manually, but at least there's no maintenance<br><br></div>A<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">-------------<br>Aaron Macks(<a href="mailto:aaronm@wiglaf.org" target="_blank">aaronm@wiglaf.org</a>)<br><a href="http://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/" target="_blank">http://www.wiglaf.org/~aaronm/</a><br>My sheep has seven gall bladders, that makes me the King of the Universe!</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Paul Beltrani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spamgrinder@gmail.com" target="_blank">spamgrinder@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Personally, I'd go with the thumb drive solution. They're cheap in bulk and it's a simple fix. However, that doesn't answer your question.<br><br>Re rebooting directly from <span id="m_-4950683655789055139:w7.1">MBR</span><br>I can't think of anything that runs completely out of the <span id="m_-4950683655789055139:w7.2">MBR</span>. (Perhaps the original version of GRUB? It's been too long and I don't recall.) While GRUB2 looks for <span id="m_-4950683655789055139:w7.3">configs</span>/menus in a boot partition, it is FOSS and you may be able to modify it to simply do a system reset. See <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/software/g<wbr>rub/</a><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div> -- Paul <span id="m_-4950683655789055139:w7.4">Beltrani</span><br><br></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Alex Aminoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alex@basespace.net" target="_blank">alex@basespace.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
On 10/7/2016 11:02 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:<br>
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Can you install a tiny boot partition containing etherboot/gpxe<br>
(<a href="http://etherboot.org/wiki/howtos" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://etherboot.org/wiki/how<wbr>tos</a>) which will then try to PXE<br>
boot indefinitely? It fits on a floppy or tiny USB, too.<br>
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That would be a backup plan if we can not find something that fits in just the MBR. The local HDs already have partitions on them, they could be re-partitioned to create space for a small partition as you suggest, but that would be a hassle. We have also thought of using a USB stick, but those are unreliable and we would have to buy and configure 20-30 USB sticks.<span><br>
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Can you alter the BIOS config to not boot off local disk?<br>
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Unfortunately the BIOS does not re-try booting from the beginning after trying all the options in the boot order. It gives you a screen that says something like "no OS found, press any key to reboot".<div class="m_-4950683655789055139HOEnZb"><div class="m_-4950683655789055139h5"><br>
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