This page describes the various workarounds that I need to perform to cold start everything in my household network. It's based on my experience on 18 July 2025.

eureka

1. eureka's hardware doesn't recover from a power outage. For some reason the BIOS doesn't have a “start running when power is connected” setting. It needs to be turned on manually. By this time, a number of other systems will be running.
2. Currently eureka won't boot cleanly. It hangs in the Boot: prompt. Pressing Enter is all it needs.
3. The external disk drives on eureka are probed and recognized in random order, so the chance of getting them mounted correctly is very low. I should do something about this; in the meantime disconnecting and then reconnecting in sequence does the job.
4. Start ~grog/bin/linkcheck as root on /dev/ttyv2.
5. Start insertdb in an xterm in directory ~grog/solar.

hydra

1. kldload nvidia-modeset. This is needed to start X.
2. Set amplifier volume with xmixer.
3. After starting X, check mouse configuration for each mouse, in particular the button map.
4. Run /home/local/bin/quirk against USB device the first time reading from the OM System OM-1 Mark II. Connect the camera to the system, then:

   === root@hydra (/dev/pts/8) /home/grog 18 -> usbconfig
   ...
   ugen0.3: <OMSYSTEM OM-1MarkII> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER (5.0Gbps) pwr=ON (2mA)
   === root@hydra (/dev/pts/8) /home/grog 19 -> quirk ugen0.3
   

tiwi

1. su; cd ~grog/src/weather/WH1080-eureka; ./dorun
   This is probably needed even if tiwi didn't restart.

distress

1. Reinstall rwhod.exe on distress. I should find out why this is necessary.

At end

1. Check other FreeBSD computers for correctly mounted NFS file systems.