Re: Configuring a monitor?

["Keith G. Murphy" <keithmur@mindspring.com>]

virtanen wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> 
> > virtanen wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm getting tired of this. But it might be the case that I just have to
> > > remember to shut the power off altogether before booting debian... because
> > > it lasted this time quite long... before it...
> >
> > When the system crashes, all the mounted filesystems are checked
> > to make sure that they are okay. On large partitions/slower
> > machines, this can take a while. When my system crashes, it takes
> > upwards of five minutes to get through the boot process.
> 
> No, when this system crashed again, it cannot boot at all any more.
> There is nothing else to do than installing the whole thing again. The
> power goes off while booting.
The actual power goes off while booting?  To your whole machine?  Linux
cannot do this, AFAIK.  (Unless with power-saving features compiled
in?)  You have a severe hardware problem.  Power supply?
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> Let's see. I'll bring the cds from home tomorrow and see, if I'll get it
> up again.
Why bother?  Fix your power difficulties first.