From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 26 09:24:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 855C816A41F for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:24:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@syz.com) Received: from mail.clearwave.ca (h139-142-194-114.gtcust.grouptelecom.net [139.142.194.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A8443D48 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:24:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@syz.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.clearwave.ca [127.0.0.1]) by mail.clearwave.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 535CC1037883 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:24:47 -0600 (MDT) Received: from mail.clearwave.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.clearwave.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13873-07 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:24:39 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.2.108] (h139-142-196-33.gtcust.grouptelecom.net [139.142.196.33]) by mail.clearwave.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9E8103787B for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:24:39 -0600 (MDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v734) In-Reply-To: <20051026090754.6B93116A441@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20051026090754.6B93116A441@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <298A1481-D4D6-4D5F-9B92-B15DE877F427@syz.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Dan Charrois Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 03:24:14 -0600 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.734) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at clearwave.ca Subject: Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:24:24 -0000 > > On 10/25/05, Dan Charrois wrote: > >> Hi all. I'm wondering if anyone can shed some light on a strange >> crashing/rebooting problem I'm having. First, the specs: >> >> Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2850 rack mounted server, Dual 3.4 Ghz Xeon, >> 5 Gb memory >> > [snip] > > 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 -- Syzygy Research & Technology Box 83, Legal, AB T0G 1L0 Canada Phone: 780-961-2213