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Article #903Re: FD error on reboot?
From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:43
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:43
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Brian Morrison wrote: > 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, I presume the OP doesn't > have a KVM switch to hand? > no..got a monitor plugged in at the mo tho..
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