There was a short a power outage today (grrr). I came back home, and the Dockstar's LED was off, indicating (as I understand it) that the linux kernel had control. I tried to ssh in to it, and got no reply. So I unplugged and re-plugged the Dockstar's power supply. The LED started flashing (which means that the bootloader is running as I understand it), and then it stopped flashing and the LED turned off, indicating that the kernel had taken control again.
I waited a minute or two and then tried to ssh in again. No reply. So I'm thinking "oh crap..."
But then the LED started flashing again, and then eventually stopped again. So I waited another minute or so and tried to ssh in again. And it worked fine. I was able to start rtorrent and mount the Dockstar's nfs share on another machine on the LAN.
I don't have a serial terminal link, so I can't monitor the machine during these plug-and-pray sessions, but does anyone know what is happening here with this bootloader-kernel-bootloader-kernel sequence? Is this normal?
Thank you!