@fluffy @Moon @dirb This server, right...there's a 500ms window where you have to hit F8. I had to reboot it three or four times just to find the right item in the prompt so I knew to hit F8. It takes a couple of minutes to reboot, by which I mean all the fans going full-speed and I'm sitting there waiting for the POST to *start*. Eventually that happens and I sit through the POST and it does the little ASCII spinner, right? Wait another minute or so while that ASCII spinner sits under the two lines of text telling me how good the RAID controller is and that it's initializing. Okay, fine. Then after that disappears, that's the 500ms window. So I start mashing F8. Sometimes I miss it.
...Then I forget to type "acpi=off" into LILO and it boots all the way up but fdisk says the drive (which appears in /dev) isn't there, because the disk controller errors out if you leave ACPI enabled.
>bested by a dead mammal
the state of plemora