Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!newton!lgy From: lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence G. Yaffe) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: how do I get a RC3240 to automatically reboot? Message-ID: Date: 30 Nov 90 04:32:04 GMT References: <1990Nov30.020249.10975@lavaca.uh.edu> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu Distribution: comp Lines: 16 davison@menudo.uh.edu (Dan Davison) writes: >My RC3240 has become exquisitely sensitive to power glitches, or there >has been a drastic increase in power glitches in one room, and I now >need to have the machine reboot itself. Setting the PROM monitor "bootmode" variable equal to "c" is supposed to do this. (But even having done this, I've seen an M/2000 fail to autoboot cleanly after a power glitch.) You should be able to set the bootmode variable using "/etc/hwconf -s bootmode c" in a running system (although I've seen this fail to do anything in a 2030), or do it with "setenv bootmode c" next time you have the machine down at the PROM monitor. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laurence G. Yaffe Internet: lgy@newton.phys.washington.edu University of Washington Bitnet: yaffe@uwaphast.bitnet