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.
Today, at home, I decided it was time to do some cable-cleanup time in
the cellar.
I decided to pull the plug of the Alixboard with pfSense on it (ok, a
2.0 beta4 version (snapshop of 11/sept))... and guess what... it won't
start up anymore.
It isn't a boot failure now, but isn't handing out any ip adresses no more.
Checking via the serial-cable, I can go into shell... but trying to do a
"Set LAN ip", won't work at all... (it just comes back at me telling me
that /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object "libxml2.so.5" not found,
required by php).
This is also an Alix board, but bought via another channel... the CF
card is also a 4GB version (but not of any brand - it's directly from
pc-engines)...
Being a bit fedup with it - I decided to putt monowall on a left-over
32MB Sandisk card (that's the only Sandisk card I have here)
This is the third system that fails to start after a powerout... (be it
a 2.0 system now, ofcourse - I cannot claim I didn't know it could
happen)...
The only reason I need pfsense, is because of the pppoe-restart function
(this is a very rare function, in either monowall nor any other
commercial product to be found)...
A second CF card would be handy - if the CF-card reader would be easier
to reach from the outside... the little boxes are quite a job to alter a
CF card into by some novice user at that site...
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