🚀 go-pugleaf

Brian Morrison <scrapspam@fenrir.org.uk> writes:

> Paul Rudin wrote:
>> 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.
>> 
>
> Still needs a monitor connected to do that...

Yes - but it's a one-time operation.