On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 00:28, magnet wrote: > I run linux 6 computers here and 2 of them refuse to reboot after a power > outage due to faults on their harddrives generating a "S.M.A.R.T" error > warning of impending doom and catastrophy soon to befall my system as the > harddrive is about to die! :) OK, so its been spewing out these messages for > the past year and they still run ok and don't contain any vital data anyway, > but my point is this; I have to reconnect a monitor, keyboard and mouse at > reboot time as the process requires the F1 key to be pressed to resume the > booting process.
Can't you just disable "S.M.A.R.T." in the BIOS? And also, in BIOS, set it for "DO NOT REPORT KEYBOARD ERRORS" ? > Otherwise they will just sit there waiting for the key to be pressed in > silence and obscurity and you cannot access these machines as technically > they are not up and running any OS yet. Its a catch-22 situation as far as > remote admin goes and the only solution is to either replace the drives or > keep taking the back off the computer stacks and connecting the perepherals > back on at boot time to each offending machine. KVM switch - but then you have to buy the special cables, and they're not cheap - and the switch ain't cheap - but they're soooooo nice...(I used to have one setup at MCI where I could control 64 machines from one keyboard/mouse/monitor - was bloody sweet - AND confusing - had to depend on a "map" to figger out which was which - and each of the servers had a desktop wallpaper denoting their name - but still got confusing when the network went south) > I have tried so many times to get VNC running KDE here without any results so > far and have had to resort to the above methods or use webmin for any admin > work on the other machines from my main connected/gateway linux box. > Granted that Webmin is a beautiful, wonderful, all-in-one, useful, saintly blessing to linux administration - but what gives with the VNC stuff? Wassup that it ain't working? -- Mon Jan 13 06:25:01 EST 2003 6:25am up 8:11, 4 users, load average: 0.77, 0.37, 0.32 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ Han Solo: I think my eyes are getting better. Instead of a big dark blur I see a big light blur. Luke Skywalker: There's nothing to see. I used to live here you know. Han Solo: You're gonna die here you know. Convenient.
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