Grub problem
Tim
ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu May 10 07:14:24 UTC 2007
Frank Tanner III:
>> As funny as this sounds, we had a cleaning person that was unplugging a
>> server from a PDU to plug in his fricken buffer when he came through to
>> buff the hall-way outside of the server room.
Not as bad as hearing the same tale about life support machines in a
hospital. I'm sure that's an urban myth though, the monitor alarms
would go off.
Tod:
> I just spoke to my contact and the keyboardless operation was the cause
> of the grub hanging problem. He plugged in the keyboard, init 6, and
> everything came up fine. I was sure if that was the issue the BIOS
> would have complained but I've been wrong before.
I had to put a video card in what I wanted as a headless server. It
flatly refused to boot without one, even after jiggering the BIOS
options all over the place.
I guess you've got four options:
* Change motherboard
* Change BIOS settings
* Leave a keyboard plugged in
* Rip the small circuit board out of a keyboard, and have that
plugged in (if a whole huge keyboard is too much to leave with
the gear)
--
(This box runs FC6, my others run FC4 & FC5, in case that's
important to the thread.)
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