Subject: RE: autoboot ?
From: Thomas Tarka (tommy@mail.mp3.com)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 16:31:44 MDT
think she means how to get the machine to power-up automagically
if it's been powered down.
I know that the old mac's were able to do that (by turning
the little circular switch on the back) but I'm not sure
about newer machines. It's not an operating system foo, AFAICT,
but a firmware foo (but that's a guess). Any OF geeks out there?
-t
UD alumnus, '96
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Steve McGrane wrote:
> realistically, if you put your program in /etc/rc.d/rc.local, and make sure
> to background it, regardless of wether a user is logged in, this program
> will be running.
>
> - Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanja Bucic [mailto:vanjab@UDel.Edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 6:00 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: autoboot ?
>
>
>
> hi.
> Security is important, I know, but I have an application for a linux box
> that requires no security - it will be contained in a aluminum box and will
> be flying at 130 000 feet. No people around :-)
> But it needs to be insensitive to sudden power failures. It needs to reboot
> and continue running the data aquisition applications no matter what
> happens.
> It is unclear to me how to set up a linux box to boot without user
> interaction.
> Is there a sensible way of doing that, or will I have to change to a
> different OS?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
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