Hello, I am running PPC version of SuSE7.1 on a G4 powermac and was wondering if anyone would know of a way to control the bios on the powermac so when the power is interupted, the machine will just restart automatically when power is returned? I have a PDU power cycling unit hooked up to the G4, so when/if the machine crashes, I can cycle the power remotely. Unfortunately at this moment when the power is turned off on the machine, then turned back on, the machine will not startup unless the power button is pressed :( Also, the G4 has been experiencing intermittent lockups during the past week (Machine has been up and running for several months). All it is running that is being used is mysql. My guess is that the lockups are probably related to memory chip problems...any ideas? Cheers, - Trevor |Trevor Jennings |Programmer/System Administrator |MaineToday.com - Division of Blethen Maine Newspapers |Email: trevj@portland.com |ICQ: 656540 Phone: (207) 822 4070
On Fri, Jan 25, Trevor Jennings wrote:
I am running PPC version of SuSE7.1 on a G4 powermac and was wondering if anyone would know of a way to control the bios on the powermac so when the power is interupted, the machine will just restart automatically when power is returned?
There is a menu entry in the engery control panel in MacOS, its called server settings.
I have a PDU power cycling unit hooked up to the G4, so when/if the machine crashes, I can cycle the power remotely. Unfortunately at this moment when the power is turned off on the machine, then turned back on, the machine will not startup unless the power button is pressed :(
Also, the G4 has been experiencing intermittent lockups during the past week (Machine has been up and running for several months). All it is running that is being used is mysql. My guess is that the lockups are probably related to memory chip problems...any ideas?
It could be a hardware problem, if you changed nothing else (kernel updates or other software updates). You could put "setterm -blank 0" in your /etc/init.d/boot.local and switch to a text console after bootup. It could be that it jumps into the xmon debugger. If this is the case, write down the pc and lr values. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
Hi, Thanks for those tips! Unfortunately since our server is located in a remote location quite a distance from us, we cannot get into Macos to make the changes, although sometime in the near future we will be doing some hardware upgrades so that will give us a good chance to make the changes to the power settings via MacOs. I also added that setting in the boot.local file. There have been no changes made to the kernel or the software packages on the system, so the server is running everything as standard from the SuSE distro (Although I have kept up with the security patches with apps we are running). Cheers, - Trevor On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Olaf Hering wrote:
On Fri, Jan 25, Trevor Jennings wrote:
I am running PPC version of SuSE7.1 on a G4 powermac and was wondering if anyone would know of a way to control the bios on the powermac so when the power is interupted, the machine will just restart automatically when power is returned?
There is a menu entry in the engery control panel in MacOS, its called server settings.
I have a PDU power cycling unit hooked up to the G4, so when/if the machine crashes, I can cycle the power remotely. Unfortunately at this moment when the power is turned off on the machine, then turned back on, the machine will not startup unless the power button is pressed :(
Also, the G4 has been experiencing intermittent lockups during the past week (Machine has been up and running for several months). All it is running that is being used is mysql. My guess is that the lockups are probably related to memory chip problems...any ideas?
It could be a hardware problem, if you changed nothing else (kernel updates or other software updates). You could put "setterm -blank 0" in your /etc/init.d/boot.local and switch to a text console after bootup. It could be that it jumps into the xmon debugger. If this is the case, write down the pc and lr values.
Gruss Olaf
-- $ man clone
BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
|Trevor Jennings |Programmer/System Administrator |MaineToday.com - Division of Blethen Maine Newspapers |Email: trevj@portland.com |ICQ: 656540 Phone: (207) 822 4070
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