Hi Everybody, I've got a spiffy little 5501 thats just about ready for deployment into a colo for traffic shaping. I'm running NanoBSD.
While doing bringup, I ran into some problems where the soekris would require a reboot, mostly at system startup. In one case, I wound up with a broken shell. So the system wedged at startup, and the only solution was a hard reset. I've also run into problems where the machine wedges on the way down. In both cases, it was my fault, but I've been known to make mistakes, and I want the machine to help me stay out of trouble. So that takes me to my question: Is there anyway to activate the hardware watchdog in the BIOS? I'd like to set it to something generous, say 5 minutes. That way if I don't get a live OS load, I'll get a chance to boot off the other partition. When the system goes multiuser, it can turn it off. Likewise for shutdown. It looks like you can do it by poking registers, but that leaves a lot to be desired. -- Robert Sexton - [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunnyvale CA, USA "First it wants to talk to us. Then I imagine it wants to explore the Universe, contact other sentiences, swap ideas and information. The usual." - Terry Bisson "They're made out of Meat" _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
