[Beowulf] A couple of interesting comments

[Chris Samuel]

----- "Perry E. Metzger" <perry at piermont.com> wrote:

> I would be less disturbed about such things if it was
> trivial to alter the BIOS settings in a semi-automated
> way -- say by booting some standalone program, or loading
> a file from a USB thumb drive.

Our most recent vendor went to the motherboard manufacturer
and said "please can you cut us a BIOS with these default
settings" and they did so.

cheers,
Chris
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