Re: A curious one



The Natural Philosopher wrote:
After a power cut, my headless server -debian testing 2.6ish - wont
reboot without keyboard input..comes up with a floppy error.

I tried telling the BIOS it had no floppies, but it still does it..is
this a Linux issue or a BIOS type issue..?

Cant remember at what stage it asks for keyboard input, cos it doesn't
have a monitor on it mostly..

Its an athlon board of some sort.

Dmesg doesn't show any errors..

I normally look in /var/log/messages ; the lines both before and after the
last one showing the (attempted) reboot. I would show it to you, but the
last one I would have fell off the 5 week cliff.

I also infer you need a larger UPS since your current one seems to have been
unable to do a controlled shutdown of your system.

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