I have a Prosignia 200 at work that now refuses to boot from CDROM. It threw a hard drive over the weekend so the secondary DNS server went "bye-byes".
So after much battling, BIOS flashing and general mucking around, I decided to just get the new drive, throw it in a spare PC (some nameless, faceless clone thing with COMPLETELY different hardware to the Prosignia - beyond an IA32 CPU it may as well have been Commodore64!!). I installed RHEL4, patched it, did the basic configuration and I was done. Now the big test - put it back in the Prosignia and see what happens. Well it booted, noticed a few devices had disappeared, and a few others "appeared". It reset my network configuration, sorted out the X server and re-jigged the rest so it was happy again. One more boot for good measure and VOILA! Completely functional, stable server again :) Now try THAT with Windows ;) (Sorry - had to gloat!) Cheers, James -- "The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down." -- H.L. Mencken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
