[TriLUG] strange happenings - self booting server?

[Magnus]

On 4/13/06, Brian Bell <bbell at kneecap.net> wrote:
>
> Here's an interesting one...
>
> Got home tonight from dinner and found that the PowerEdge1550 sitting in
> my office was running... and had been up for 2hr 43 min.    Its running
> Ubuntu 5.10 (breezy)



Brian,

Check the BIOS.  There is usually a setting for what behavior to take after
recovery from a power failure.  Usually the options are something like
"Off", "On", "Remember last state".  If you have a power hiccup, and this
was set to "On", the conditions would have been right for the server to
start on its own.