power company idiots cut power while system was on, now hangs at boot with # prompt
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lol, it's a Puppy linux distro! It's really cool......installed it from a liveCD, and used the provided GRUB and gparted tools to sort out an old 2nd hard drive I got for free to install + boot Puppy onto.
Looks nice too - I think I saw one of its variants on the popular downloads list here yesterday.
Recommend it thus far for handy system fixes cause you can mount any drives from the liveCD, works with my old Pentium II and my new quad, xvesa works on my old CRT and my new LCD, recognised all the hardware out of the box; using a Hayes Accura for dialup access.
Anyways - got a reply at the Puppy forums, to type in 'xwin' at the # prompt - which worked fine, it recognised there could have been a power cut off.
these f-ing idiots from the power company cut off the house breakers etc while Puppy was on and the modem on (but not online)
Idiots?? I doubt it. If it was not some kind of failure, I'm betting that they had a good reason to cut the power. I'm also betting it will happen again.
The only sure-fire solution would be to get a UPS.
Idiots?? I doubt it. If it was not some kind of failure, I'm betting that they had a good reason to cut the power. I'm also betting it will happen again.
The only sure-fire solution would be to get a UPS.
Exactly my thoughts. That's not something you can blame the electric company for. They don't know what's running in your house, unless you tell them. If they were cutting power to your house for maintenance, you should have shut your computer down beforehand.
A UPS is a great way to handle the problem, and Linux does support auto-shutdown when the UPS's battery gets low.
I don't care what you have for backup. If you don't prepare your system(s) for the worst case scenario then anything that happens is 'YOUR' fault. Power is one thing that you can control. Either via a UPS or a standby power system. For the general user the convenient UPS and I'm not talking 'United Parcel System' will suffice. The price per watt is fair with the modern UPS.
A standby power system can really get high in cost for the KW to drive a moderate home along with your 'Puppy 4.0' system.
The idiots as you call them are a necessary functional crew that must be on call and work in some of the worst conditions you could ever imagine. I'm sure they just decided to cut power to your zone just so you could rant about the idiots that decided to cut off your electricity. Or maybe it was just a warning to the idiot that fails to pay his bill on time.
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