Hi, I am a reseller of Alix boxes and one of my client has also complained about problem with Power Outage and Alix not rebooting.
When you talk about power outage and Alix board, I think all kind of weird thing can happen… If you want a more secure environment, don't buy Alix board, buy higher end products with a better power supply. That being said, I have sold more than one hundred Alix boards and had no more than one problem related to Power Outage. So I guess that even though Power Outage can and will happen, most of the time you'll reboot without problem. My advice : buy a second CF card ready to be plugged in. Bye // Le 10 sept. 2010 à 04:07, Chris Buechler a écrit : > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Michel Servaes <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99h >> 640 KB Base Memory >> 261120 KB Extended Memory >> >> No boot device available, press Enter to continue. >> > > That's a new one. The very few scenarios I've heard of in the past > were filesystem corruption that it fails to repair with fsck, leaving > the system unbootable, but it gets well past that, and that's far > different since it's the boot sector. I can't think of anything but > hardware problems that could possibly cause that. That makes me wonder > if you have bad blocks on the CF that hosed your previous boot sector, > and when you rewrite it, the wear leveling writes to unaffected > blocks. I really doubt if that's anything other than the CF, maybe a > few bad cards in the batch you got. With at least tens of thousands of > ALIX systems out there running pfSense, to be the first to run into > something is highly unusual. > > >> I am using the "embedded" version on a 4GB Kingston CF card... (it's >> not an industrial one...). > > That sounds like the same CF cards we use (and seriously abuse) quite > a bit, we've never had a problem with those. Personally, I wouldn't > trust either of the cards this happened to, for running in remote > locations at least. > > Most of my systems in production in the field have SanDisk cards in > them, and most of our resellers ship with SanDisk. My testing and > development systems get infinitely more abuse than any production > system though, and they almost all run Kingston cards. There are a few > different Kingston models though, maybe you have something different > from the ones we have. > > >> But when using embedded - I guess I am >> using read-only, no ? >> > > Unless you got in under the hood and changed how things work, yes, > you're read only. Besides, the boot sector has nothing to do with how > your partitions are mounted. It could result in partition corruption, > but that's not what you're seeing. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Gregober ---> PGP ID --> 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
