On Sunday 12 Jan 2003 7:34 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > 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" ?
This feature isn't available on this BIOS - Megatrend on a gigabyte mobo - so I can't see any way around the 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 looked into the KVM option but as you say it isn't cheap, and "6" seems to be an odd number as most units I saw were for 4 machines and their price was too much, so buying 2 was even less desirable. A bit of a non-starter here as the cost couldn't be justified for the use the machines get here. > > 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? >From memory iirc I installed VNC/servers and set passwords up. Read through all the blurb and changed the config line to include the &KDE option and then a few other versions of that option including a link to the startx, but I couldn't get the KDE environment to be loaded. At best all I could get was a window with a blue background and a white background X console window up. I believe this is the default desktop setting VNC comes with. Right-clicking bought up a menu of some basic apps and a few did work but it was nothing like looking/using KDE within the window. Being very unfamiliar with fully using a console for everything this doesn't help me much. If I sit infront of KDE screen and use a VNC window to look at the Winblowz laptop running ME it appears fine and functions as if you were sitting infront of the laptop. Getting it to view another linux box using KDE is a different beast though and nothing achieved yet. -- magnet Registered Linux User: 281659 Registered machines: 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 6xAthlon 1.2GHz all running some flavour of Mandrake. "My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment!"
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