Subject: Re: autoboot ?
From: Vanja Bucic (vanjab@UDel.Edu)
Date: Wed Sep 20 2000 - 16:40:48 MDT
on 09_20_2000 18:35, Hollis R Blanchard at hollis+@andrew.cmu.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Vanja Bucic wrote:
>>
>> Security is important, I know, but I have an application for a linux box
>> that requires no security - it will be contained in a aluminum box and will
>> be flying at 130 000 feet. No people around :-)
>> But it needs to be insensitive to sudden power failures. It needs to reboot
>> and continue running the data aquisition applications no matter what
>> happens.
>> It is unclear to me how to set up a linux box to boot without user
>> interaction.
>> Is there a sensible way of doing that, or will I have to change to a
>> different OS?
>
> You can of course have Linux automatically boot, and you could use a UPS
> for power failure notification etc... but you probably don't want to use a
> Mac.
>
> -Hollis
Any laptop would do good.
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