Power outage now my server asks for fck, what to do?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:57:33 +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
>Does this show BIOS or UEFI?
>
>$ sudo dmidecode -t bios
># dmidecode 3.1
>Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
>SMBIOS 2.6 present.
>
>Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
>BIOS Information
>        Vendor: American Megatrends, Inc.
>        Version: P01-A1
>        Release Date: 01/28/2010
>        Address: 0xF0000
>        Runtime Size: 64 kB
>        ROM Size: 1024 kB
>        Characteristics:
>                ISA is supported
>                PCI is supported
>                PNP is supported
>                APM is supported
>                BIOS is upgradeable
>                BIOS shadowing is allowed
>                ESCD support is available
>                Boot from CD is supported
>                Selectable boot is supported
>                BIOS ROM is socketed
>                EDD is supported
>                5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
>                3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
>                3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
>                Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
>                8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
>                Serial services are supported (int 14h)
>                Printer services are supported (int 17h)
>                CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
>                ACPI is supported
>                USB legacy is supported
>                LS-120 boot is supported
>                ATAPI Zip drive boot is supported
>                BIOS boot specification is supported
>                Targeted content distribution is supported
>        BIOS Revision: 8.15
>
>Handle 0x000F, DMI type 13, 22 bytes
>BIOS Language Information
>        Language Description Format: Long
>        Installable Languages: 1
>                en|US|iso8859-1
>        Currently Installed Language: en|US|iso8859-1

Hi,

I don't think so, at least my American Megatrends BIOS information
explicitly lists that "UEFI is supported". Maybe I'm mistaken and yours
does support UEFI, too. Find out what mobo you are using and download
the user manual.

I never used, don't use and hopefully never have to use U/EFI/secure
boot. However, the first setting I used was legacy only, but for no
transparent reason, I needed to change to legacy + UEFI, to continue
booting my Linux installs, that don't contain anything U/EFI/secure
boot related. I don't know what happens, if I need to migrate from MBR
to GPT. At the moment I only use MBR. I replace one after the other
small SSD in my PC by large TiB sized SSDs, still small enough to use
them with MBR, but the tons of external backup and archiving HDDs are
asking to start using HDDs > 2 TiB. At the moment I still buy one after
the other external 2 TiB HDD, IOW quite soon I need to use external
HDDs > 2 TiB.

[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo dmidecode -t baseboard | grep Base -A2
Base Board Information
	Manufacturer: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
	Product Name: B85M-D3H
[rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ sudo dmidecode -t bios
# dmidecode 3.3
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.7 present.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
	Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
	Version: F15
	Release Date: 08/20/2015
	Address: 0xF0000
	Runtime Size: 64 kB
	ROM Size: 8 MB
	Characteristics:
		PCI is supported
		BIOS is upgradeable
		BIOS shadowing is allowed
		Boot from CD is supported
		Selectable boot is supported
		BIOS ROM is socketed
		EDD is supported
		5.25"/1.2 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		3.5"/720 kB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		3.5"/2.88 MB floppy services are supported (int 13h)
		Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
		8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
		Serial services are supported (int 14h)
		Printer services are supported (int 17h)
		ACPI is supported
		USB legacy is supported
		BIOS boot specification is supported
		Targeted content distribution is supported
		UEFI is supported
	BIOS Revision: 4.6

Handle 0x0050, DMI type 13, 22 bytes
BIOS Language Information
	Language Description Format: Long
	Installable Languages: 7
		en|US|iso8859-1
		de|DE|iso8859-1
		ru|RU|iso8859-5
		ko|KR|unicode
		ja|JP|unicode
		zh|CS|unicode
		zh|CT|unicode
	Currently Installed Language: en|US|iso8859-1

Regards,
Ralf