I don't know if this is the appropriate place for me to ask this question, since it's more for system maintenance, but I'm having difficult time finding any answers on Google. but is there any way to reboot and execute VFD, virtual floppy disk, without ghost client?? ...
I know how to reboot machines remotely, so that's the easy part. However, the complexity of the issue is trying to setup the following. I'd like to control machines on a network for after-hours use such that when users logoff and go home, or shutdown their computers, whatever, python or some combination of python + windows could restart ...
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Hi, I'd like to use IPMI to set a machine to PXE boot (i.e. ipmitool -I lan -U username -P password -H ipaddress chassis bootdev pxe) and then power cycle it (i.e. ipmitool -I lan -U username -P password -H ipaddress chassis power cycle). However, I'd like to do this in a python script so I'm trying to use OpenIPMI and its python bindin...
Hello all, I have a quick question that I can't seem to find the answer to. When a pc first boots up, it starts executing at physical address 0xffff0. This address contains a jmp instruction to the BIOS. Now for my question, I always assume the physical addresses are mapped to RAM. If RAM initially contains garbage values, what exac...
What is the language used to write operating systems (Windows) or a boot CD? ...
hi, I am working with an embedded board , but i don't know the flow of the start up code(C/assembly) of the same. Can we discuss the general modules/steps acted upon by the start up action in the case of an embedded system. Just a high level overview(algorithmic) is enough.All examples are welcome. /Kanu__ ...
I have been attempting to add sound on boot to run with the boot animation on a droid running Froyo 2.2 ROM. This is what I have tried this far: Added to init.rc ###Bootsound - Safe to Delete: Start ### service bootsound /system/bin/bootsound user media group audio disabled oneshot on property:init.sv...
I need to check which key the user must hit to boot their PC from a USB key or a CD. Does it depend on the BIOS maker, or on the maker/model of the motherboard? I was told about the nice, open-source Speccy to get some information on the hardware, but is there a library that I could use to get the same info from a (.Net) program and te...
Hi I have upgraded my laptop with a solid state drive and Windows 7. I still have the old Vista install on the old hard drive. I would like to be able to boot up from the old hard drive without having to swap out the two hard drives in the laptop. I have put it in a usb case and selected it as the boot drive. When I start the system...
The script below works great when logged in as root and run from the command line, but when run at first boot using /etc/rc.local in Ubuntu 10.04, it fails about 25% of the time- the system root, mysql root and some mysql user passwords are set correctly, but one will fail with console log reporting standard mysql login error: "ERROR...
I'm looking for a way to determine whether an ARM processor is booting from a cold boot (i.e. initial power-on) versus a warm boot (i.e. reset assertion without actual power loss). Specifically I'm using an ARM968 core, will be making the determination using C or assembly, and I will use the determination so certain operations only run ...
Hi, I'm trying to compile this program under Windows (it's a program which turns bootable code in floppies. I got the source from here: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigops/roll_your_own/1.bootstrap.html). First I got the problem that it didn't read the INI file. That is solved now. Now I get a segfault on the following rule: while(data < e...
Dear all, I'm doing coarsened exact matching on an imputed dataset. To validate I do bootstrapping of the results from cem. However I'm unable to get boot.ci output to work. I get the error msg Error in bca.ci(boot.out, conf, index[1L], L = L, t = t.o, t0 = t0.o, : estimated adjustment 'a' is NA The object is there but for some r...
Im currently trying to execute a batch script under dos thats being booted before windows Im trying to Load the img file containing the boot sectors to boot into a "bootable floppy" from flash disk and execute a batch file called installer.bat When the batch file is run it should ask a the technician to verify a drive letter, and then ...
Okay I was trying to remove some of those fake anti virus programs from a laptop, I'm trying to avoid reinstalling the OS as this is setup as a multiple boot machine centos and vista with special configs on both sides that took a lot of time to setup. After a tradeshow it came back with the fake antivirus on it. Generally you can task ma...
Possible Duplicate: UBUNTU:How to NOT run vsftpd at boot time ?! Also, already migrated to SF: UBUNTU:How to NOT run vsftpd at boot time… ?! HI, Im trying to prevent vsftpd to start at boot time and didnt find how until now... Im using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I have installing vfstpd via apt-get I have removed the init scrip...
Hi All, I have a process (Spark chat client) which needs to be run when my ubuntu boots up. For this I have done followings I created a run.sh file which will fire up my application (and I check its working) I created a symbolic link from both /etc/rc5.d/ and /etc/rc3.d/ to my run.sh file. (Symbolic link is also working fine) But...
I need to force the host in one of the environments in my rails app. I've can get the override to work by including def default_url_options(opts={}) opts.merge({:host => 'stg.my-host.com'}) end in app/controllers/application.rb But is there a way to set this on initialize, preferably in a config/environments/... file? I'd li...
I came across these two lines in osdev wiki. nasm kernel.asm -f bin -o kernel.bin dd if=kernel.bin of=/dev/fd0 It copies the kernel binary to a flopy. Does this means the flopy becomes bootable? I don't want to create a bootable flopy , instead of that I want to create a iso image by which I can boot in vmware. is it possible? If...