[Beowulf] A couple of interesting comments

[Michael Brown]

Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> Anyone have any cool tricks for how to consistently set the BIOS on
> large numbers of boxes without requiring steps that humans can screw
> up easily?

Get a USB stick that boots into Linux. Set up one machine the way you want,
then boot it up using the USB stick. Do:
 dd if=/dev/nvram of=cmos.bin
For each oth the other machines, boot them using the stick and do:
  dd if=cmos.bin of=/dev/nvram