Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:24:14 -0600 From: Dan Charrois <dan@syz.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem Message-ID: <298A1481-D4D6-4D5F-9B92-B15DE877F427@syz.com> In-Reply-To: <20051026090754.6B93116A441@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20051026090754.6B93116A441@hub.freebsd.org>
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> On 10/25/05, Dan Charrois <dan@syz.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on a strange
>> crashing/rebooting problem I'm having. First, the specs:
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>> Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2850 rack mounted server, Dual 3.4 Ghz Xeon,
>> 5 Gb memory
>>
> [snip]
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> You didn't mention, have you run Dell diagnostics on the machine to
> rule out hardware issues?
No, I haven't been able to run diagnostics and rule out the hardware
for two reasons.. First, the server is located about an hour's drive
away, and I haven't had the chance to get to it yet. Of course, this
can be fixed. But secondly, I have no idea *how* to run Dell
Diagnostics. The "Dell PowerEdge Service and Diagnostic Utilities,
Version 4.4" CD that I have insists on being run from Windows, right
down to a setup.exe in the root directory and a ReadMe that starts
describing how to use the CD as:
1. Insert the Service and Diagnostic Utilities CD into the CD drive
on a system running Windows. The setup program should start
automatically. If it does not, click the Start button, click Run,
and then type x:setup.exe (where x is the drive letter of your CD
drive).
This isn't a dual boot machine - it's sole task is running FreeBSD
for an SQL server, so that's not an option for me. You'd think that
they'd have a self-booting CD that would be able to diagnose the
machine, since for the life of me, even if I *were* running Windows,
I wouldn't be able to figure out how to diagnose a problem if part of
the problem made Windows unbootable... I must be missing something.
Dan
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