Re: FD error on reboot?

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From: Paul Rudin
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:10

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The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> writes:

> Must have had some power surges in last nights storm because the
> computers were all haywire this morning.,.well the WEIN 98 PC
> rebooted, but it shoudln't as its NOT set to autoreboot on power
> loss..
>
> The linux server was dead tho - that shouldn't have rebooted EITHER
> but was stuck saying 'floppy drive error (40)' or somesuch..
>
> Hitting a key (F1) to get it to restart worked fine..but a forced
> reboot still shows the same error..anyone got any clues? power surge
> striped the flash BIOS settings maybe?
>
> The linux normally runs headless and its a pain to have plug a monitor
> in to reboot.


Well - if it really is just that the floppy drive is dead you can
presumably disable the attempt to boot from it in bios and the problem
should go away.

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