And once again, fate has conspired to take away my servers while I was away on vacation… This time it was a power outage, as evidenced by the blinking clock in my bedroom.
All of my systems are set up to automatically boot into the appropriate OS, start the right services, etc., but there’s still one problem: when the power goes off, it stays off. Even if it’s only a five-second outage, the systems simply don’t come back on after the power is restored, and there doesn’t seem to be any way to control it. (One of my systems at work actually has the opposite problem: it can’t be powered off. A ‘shut down’ simply makes it reboot, so you have to use the main switch on the back.)
I’m tempted to finally get a UPS. Not to keep them on during an outage — they’re not exactly mission-critical servers — but just so that they *stay on* after it…
Well, not to make too much light of the event, but we can be glad they weren’t on fire…. ;-)
Well, if you replaced them all with Macs, you wouldn’t have this problem. ;-)
Bwahahaha ;-D
Oh, duh… There *is* a BIOS option to control it, like you suspected PDP. I swear I don’t remember seeing it before, so maybe it was added in the BIOS update I had to do for large drive support.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it…
Hey, you forget — you’re speaking to the King of Bad Memory and Brain Farts. I believe ya. ;-)