[Babase] Re: Fwd: Cron <root@papio>
/usr/local/sbin/rsync_backup --single-link backup-server1
/etc/rsync.d/rsync_backup_password --exclude-here
/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db / /boot --exclude-here '/disk/scratch/*'
--exclude-here '/disk/swap_areas/*' /disk
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Fri Nov 13 11:43:13 EST 2009
On 11/13/2009 09:26:35 AM, Susan Alberts wrote:
> OK thanks for this Karl. Can you send directions for how to change
> Dumbo's bios?
No, not in detail. They are all different.
If you like you can call eracks support on the phone and they
can talk you through it. I'm sure Robert has done this sort
of thing many times.
The basic procedure is:
Plug a monitor in.
Plug a keyboard into one of the USB ports.
Turn the computer on by pressing the power button on the front.
Watch the screen carefully. Just as it starts there will
probably be a message on the screen that says something
like "Press F2 to enter setup." or some such. You need
to press the key _before_ the screen goes all blue and waits
for 5 seconds with a list of the available linux kernels
printed on the screen. (This is the GRUB screen.)
If the GRUB screen comes up just press Ctrl-Alt-Del (or
the power button) and try again.
See the screenshots on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOS
If you don't see the "Press F2 to enter setup." message,
or it goes by too quickly, try pressing one of the following
keys to get into the bios setup:
F2 (the function key across the top)
Del
Esc (the escape key in the upper left)
F1 (the function key across the top)
Once the bios setup screen has come up you read the instructions
as to how to navigate the screen. Usually it'll have some help
across the bottom or the right side of the screen. I'd
expect you use the arrow keys to move the cursor and the
escape (Esc) or enter keys to exit (go "backwards" to a
higher level). Often you must press the + or - keys
to cycle though the available choices. (Sometimes
the page up or page down keys do this too.)
See the BIOS screenshots at:
http://www.hiren.info/pages/bios-boot-cdrom
A black and white GRUB screenshot is here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GRUB_screenshot.png
You probably want a page (or menu item) labeled something like
"power management". They'll be something called (probably)
"after power failure" which will have 3 choices:
power on
last state
power off
(The screenshots above show this menu item.)
You want to choose "power on".
(Usually) after that you can press the escape key a number
of times until it asks if you want to reboot and save
your changes. Say yes and that's it.
You can practice this on the PCs at Duke. (That's what
they're for, right? ;-) Every non-Mac
PC has a BIOS. If you get stuck while in the BIOS setup
just unplug the computer
and start over and nothing will have changed and nothing
will break.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
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