> But this led me to wonder how I would cope if, for instance, a server
> came up in single-user mode requiring an fsck.
The standard way to deal with this in DC deployments is to use IPMI:
1) Redirect the BIOS console to the IPMI virtual console.
2) Redirect the boot loader prompts to the IPMI
On Wed, 31 Aug 2016, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> It took three days for an engineer with sufficiently developed skills to
> become available: He solved the problem by switching the server on.
Having found no good way to truly address issues like this without some
control of my own, I don't deal wit
st...@prd.co.uk (Steve Blinkhorn) writes:
>But this led me to wonder how I would cope if, for instance, a server
>came up in single-user mode requiring an fsck.
This is handled by using server hardware that has an out-of-band
management console, i.e. BMC, ILO, DRAC, iRMC, or just a serial
console
On 31 August 2016 at 11:34, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> Following on from the recent saga of upgrading from 2.0 to 7.0 which
> assiduous readers may recall, the servers were re-installed in their
> racks in the data centre. All was well with one of them but the
> other apparently failed. It took
Following on from the recent saga of upgrading from 2.0 to 7.0 which
assiduous readers may recall, the servers were re-installed in their
racks in the data centre. All was well with one of them but the
other apparently failed. It took three days for an engineer with
sufficiently developed skill
On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 03:52:43PM -0400, Al Zick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I really hope that there is someone who can help me. I want to install
> NetBSD on a rackspace VPS. I have NetBSD running on a VPS hosted by someone
> else, and they use a very different system for the install and I could mount
> a
