Re: autoboot ?


Subject: Re: autoboot ?
From: Hollis R Blanchard (hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 16:35:25 MDT


On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Vanja Bucic wrote:
>
> 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?

You can of course have Linux automatically boot, and you could use a UPS
for power failure notification etc... but you probably don't want to use a
Mac.

-Hollis



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