[GTALUG] server questions - - help needed

David Collier-Brown davec-b at rogers.com
Mon Jun 4 08:50:46 EDT 2018


On 03/06/18 10:57 PM, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 5:54 PM, William Park via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 02:47:13PM -0500, o1bigtenor via talk wrote:
>>> Greetings
>>>
>>> I am quite new at running a server so hopefully the question isn't too
>>> out there.
>>>
>>> My server has been operational for about a year and I am working on a
>>> number of different projects on it. Twice now (this last friday and 5
>>> weeks early I came into the office to find that the server has somehow
>>> been taken down and  has rebooted itself (process setup in the bios)
>>> but as it doesn't quite complete the boot process, I have to hit a key
>>> to tell it to continue and then finally to log in to read Debian
>>> (stable).
>> Who does the stopping?  BIOS or Linux kernel?
> Bios - - - need to hit F2 (IIRC) to kick the bios in the pants and
> then I can get
> to the os prompt a little later.

Google for "Server stuck at F1 or F2 prompt". Depending on your vendor, 
you will get quite a bit of information on probable causes and 
diagnostic processes.  I had to debug a work Dell with that a while ago, 
and sometime in my Copious Spare Time Intel server (;-))

--dave

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