On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 07:16:17PM -0400, MaD dUCK wrote:
> also sprach ktb (on Wed, 16 May 2001 05:24:46PM -0500):
> > Maybe this isn't a lot of help but there is a couple of programs out
> > there that fit on a windows floppy that tells you the board number. That
> > can be used to find the manufacture and hopefully the documentation from
> > there. I used it once a year ago and it worked well. I just searched
> > on the net and found it. I'll do some poking around and see what I can
> > come up with.
>
> thanks. but i want to minimized downtime and the system can only go
> down saturday night and only for at most 1 hour. so floppy boot isn't
> an option, and windoze definitely not in any case.
Sounds to me like you need to set up a backup server. Give yourself
some time to work on this. At any rate you don't need windows on the
server for the boot disk to work. The windows boot is just a means to
give the executable an enviornment to work. Finding the board number
would take the time of two boots and a minute or less more. From there
finding the jumpers could take 10 minutes to never.
If all of this is that mission critical buy a new board for $100.00 have the
machine ready with a generic kernel, slap the board in and boot.
kent
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