Path: utzoo!attcan!sobeco!stacy From: stacy@sobeco.com (s.millions) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips Subject: Re: how do I get a RC3240 to automatically reboot? Message-ID: <1990Dec15.200728.29091@sobeco.com> Date: 15 Dec 90 20:07:28 GMT References: <1990Nov30.020249.10975@lavaca.uh.edu> Sender: @sobeco.com Distribution: comp Organization: Groupe Sobeco, Montreal, Canada Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: argent.sts.sobeco.com lgy@phys.washington.edu (Laurence G. Yaffe) writes: >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.) I set bootmode to c on our 3240. It did try to reboot, but just after loading the kernel it gave an endless stream of unexpected fp interupt messages. Setting bootmode to w (warm vs. cold) fixed the problem. The machine still reboots after a crash or power outage. -stacy -- Brian Mulroney is at 15% in the polls and uunet!sobeco!stacy 17% of Canadians believe Elvis is alive stacy@sobeco.com