>Later I came to turn it back on and found I was stuck! Because it was in auto >mode and had been shut down correctly, it was stuck turned off >- turning on the PSU had no effect, so I had to call out an engineer to go and >press the power button. >The moral of the story is to leave the BIOS set to 'turn on' and then turn it >off at the PSU; do not use the 'auto' mode! >This particular server had no IPMI/ILO facility so I couldn't tell it to turn >on that way.
Good point, we always set server's BIOS options to something like "power on" instead of "last state". Only drawback: in a black start situation of your server room all your systems try to start at the same time; plus servers tend to draw a lot of power in the first minutes : all disks spinning up, all fans running at full speed... you might well end up with a UPS overload shutoff or a blown fuse in that situation. But in this case there will probably somebody around anyway. JC _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
