Re: headless UP1000

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 [email protected] wrote:

> 
> hi Rich, good to see you're still there! 

Yup, still here, working for a different three letter chip company now.

> was wondering what had happened
> to api. shame about the reference docs - if it's hosting that is needed to
> make them available then let me know, maybe i can help.

No, it's just a case of me finding the time.
 
> and thanks for the quick answer - didn't think of that, doh!
> 
> > > also i can't get power-down on system halt, is there a way to either
> > > just power-down before switching back to SRM, or some way to tell
> > SRM to > do it?
> >
> > Sorry...power-off on system halt? Then how would you get back to SRM if
> > it's powered off. Don't understand that one.
> 
> sorry, it's my bad english - what i meant was power-down _instead_ of
> switching back to SRM. i just want to be able to turn the power off
> remotely, in case of fan failure i'd rather do that than let it fry.

OK, the answer is yes, you can do that, but I can't remember how. If 
memory servers there was something in the Nautilus/Irongate specific code 
in the kernel that controlled whether we powered off or just returned to SRM 
(power off was via APM I think and just requires poking the correct 
register). At one point we actually changed the default kernel behavior to 
return to SRM instead of power-off to be more 'Alpha like'. You may want 
to go back to the older kernel (2.2.14 ??) and see how they handled it.

--rdp

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Rich Payne
http://talisman.mv.com