On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 10:28:26PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
>
> But first I need to try to sort out my least-powered desktop box
> (the one which also runs i686 and windows) - a couple of weeks ago I
> saw log messages saying it had run backup scripts from fcron when I
> was fairly sure it had been powered off - somehow, it had turned on
> and then booted the default option in grub. The next time I tried to
> boot it, nothing until I turned off the power, fiddled about with the
> connections to no obvious effect, and then tried again. Today it is
> again not coming alive, I need to close down the intel box before I
> turn off the power. Sometimes, hardware can be a PITA and that box
> is only about 2 years old.
>
Got a new PSU, but the box is now totally dead. Maybe the on/off
switch in the case actually is the problem - but I need more
hardware to be able to check that, and for the moment I'm not in a
rush to do that. So, for now I will not be building or testing for
i686, except (possibly) in qemu.
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