Re: [LUAU] how resilient is linux with repeated cold reboots?

2007-11-01 Thread Vince Hoang
On 10/30/07, Charles Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have had Linux installs in the past which eventually took the long > sleep from being cold booted too many times, but the newer distros > seem pretty resilient. Still, the machine is dying and being > restarted many times per day, someti

Re: [LUAU] how resilient is linux with repeated cold reboots?

2007-10-30 Thread Ron Fox
On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Charles Lockhart wrote: > And then I cycle power. Woohoo! > > I have had Linux installs in the past which eventually took the long > sleep from being cold booted too many times, but the newer distros > seem pretty resilient. Still, the machine is dying and being > restarted

[LUAU] how resilient is linux with repeated cold reboots?

2007-10-30 Thread Charles Lockhart
I'm doing some development on an instrument where communication between the linux box and the some remote electronics is via this specialized PCI serial fiber card. The PCI card really sucks, it's not exactly a custom board, not exactly a production quality board. Some PCs won't boot with with the