02-08-2019, 06:59 PM
(01-28-2019, 01:07 PM)jbobspants Wrote: Oh, from the wording of the first post, I just assumed he was talking about PXE booting 6 of the modules from a PXE server running on the 7th module. I read that ayufan had implemented a PXE boot loader that could be installed on the SPI flash, but considering I'm having issues getting ANY networking to work properly on my clusterboard, I hadn't even started looking into that option.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well, which would be a marked improvement on the state of affairs when I tried it last, and couldn't get any of the them to PXE boot off a external PXE server... and since my intention for them to be run in a cluster, with the primary node being the orchestrator for them, the booting of 6 off the one (with eMMC) would be just fine...
Would just be nice if there was some (even dot-pointed) documentation to indicate if this works, any workarounds that needed to be implmentnted, and limitations/quirks. i.e. Do you have to fully boot the first module up, and then reset all the others? Or do they hang-around and retry for long enough for it to boot and announce? Was this with a patched uboot? mainline kernel? etc.
