coming back up after power failure (UPS)
Peter
petermatulis at yahoo.ca
Thu Mar 9 06:13:37 UTC 2006
--- Derek Ragona <derek at computinginnovations.com> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> Look in the bios in the power management section, for something like
> after
> loss of power, there set the action to power on, as opposed to stay
> off, or
> anything else.
>
> You can test this just power on the unit and pull the plug during the
> bios
> post. If it comes back on when you plug it back in, you have it
> right.
>
> I have NUT set to power down on low battery, so if you need help, let
> me know.
>
> -Derek
>
>
> At 05:39 PM 3/8/2006, Peter wrote:
>
> >--- Philip Hallstrom <freebsd at philip.pjkh.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > On an updated 5.4 box I am using Network UPS Tools (NUT) with
> an
> > > APC
> > > > Smart-UPS.
> > > >
> > > > All is going very well but I cannot bring my box back up after
> > > > simulating a power failure. At the end of the shutdown the
> screen
> > > > shows:
> > > >
> > > > "Press any key to reboot"
> > > >
> > > > Obviously this is not the desired outcome.
> > > >
> > > > How can I get my system to go down completely? Beyond this I
> > > > understand there may be some BIOS adjustments to be made.
> > >
> > > man shutdown...
> > >
> > > -p The system is halted and the power is turned off
> > > (hardware
> > > support required) at the specified time.
> > >
> > > for starters... but yeah, you might need some BIOS changes...
> > >
> >
> >Well I tried the -p switch and, indeed, the system came down
> >completely. But now it just
> >sits there. This is after I enabled this setting in my BIOS:
> >
> >"PME Event Wake UP"
> >
> >I figured that would do the trick but evidently not. Anything else
> I
> >should be looking at? How long should the system wait before coming
> >back up? I waited only a minute.
I did it!
I was almost resigned to the fact that this would not work. One last
rummage around the BIOS and I see this setting:
"AC Back Function"
Doesn't exactly draw much attention does it? But that was it. Damn.
--
Peter
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