[BBLISA] MBR that reboots machine

[Bill Bogstad]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 7 Oct 2016, Aaron Macks wrote:
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>> 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
>
>
> BIOS parameters to set a go back to the first option on failure of all boot
> options are extremely rare, but I have it at least once. I have never seen a
> BIOS with an adjustable timeout in the CMOS.
>
> Anyway, why repeat the boot automatically, when the operator can log in to
> the IPMI and do it manually?

Downtime?  If there has been a power failure there may be lots of
other things which
require human intervention.  If this part of recovery can be automated
without negative
consequences/high costs, why not do so?

Bill Bogstad