Re: FD error on reboot?

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From: The Natural Philosopher
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:33

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Harold Stevens wrote:
> In <874ps7d8hy.fsf@rudin.co.uk> Paul Rudin:
> 
> [Snip...]
> 
>> Yes - but it's a one-time operation.
> 
> In hindsight, and FWIW...
> 
> When I ran remote servers, I left a cheap monitor connected but powered off
> until/if needed locally. I also disabled checking for keyboard and mouse at
> POST, and made sure the BIOS boot order went to the root device first. Also
> (as mentioned in another post), after a couple of power surges, I made darn
> sure my servers always had (working) UPS, too.
> 
Yeah.,.me too..though I am not sure if I can disable keyboard on this one.

The point on this one its not remote..its by my knee, tucked under the 
desk..telnet and a web browser are all it needs to do the routine stiff.


> It was better to have a cheap monitor immediately available to walk someone
> through a repair reboot by phone, than buying same-day airfare for me to do
> it myself in person.
> 

Space..I haven't the space..when I reorganise my workshop though the 
windoze may go in there, and the Linux become a desktop..

Right now I am developing server side PHP/SQL web code on it using the 
Windoze to do the editing
> JMO; YMMV...
>

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