From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 14 05:28:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D8E16A41F for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:28:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1C943D45 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:28:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E290962C9B7 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:28:05 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 87263-05 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:28:05 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8139762C9B0 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:28:05 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9287246AA3; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:28:04 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DECC3E9A5 for ; Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:28:04 -0400 (AST) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 01:28:04 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060114012618.I28752@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Subject: DL360 server acting ... odd ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 05:28:07 -0000 I posted something to the HP Forums about this, see if I get anything over the weekend, but figured I'd pop a note to the list to see if anyone else has experienced something like this ... its not a FreeBSD issue, since its not getting to that point yet ... Here's what I've posted to the Forums ... maybe someone here has an idea? Or do I have a bad server? ============ Just picked up one of these things, and its a beauty ... but I'm getting *really* odd behaviour ... I login through iLO, open up Remote Console then go to Virtual Devices to power up ... but all that seems to happen is it goes from: Monitored Server Is Powered Down. to: Monitored Server Console Is In An Unsupported Text Mode. And then just sits there ... eventually, I hear two beeps come out of it ... The reason why this is odd ... I've already powered this server up, installed an operating system on it, rebooted several times, everything was great ... I unplugged the server from the wall (those fans can be annoying) two days ago, haven't moved the server ... just plugged it back in today to do some more work on it ... I'm at a loss ... she was working great :( Kinda makes me nervous to deploy it ... What should I be looking at? thanks ... ========== Followed up by: ========= k, this is odd ... I took the cover off of the box, since there are 'flashing lights' on the inside ... plug'd it back in, boots fine ... replug in the power supplies again, doesn't boot fine ... when it boots fine, its consistent ... I can be in iLO and type 'power off' / 'power on' all I want and it boots fine ... when it doesn't boot, it never boots ... power seems to be fine in all cases ... fans all power up, drives power up, and lights flicker on the RAID controller ... The one thing that has botherd me though ... the 'charging' light on the RAID controller always appears on ... bad battery? or is this normal? ========== Right now, after unplugging it from the wall and back in again, I've got the server booted up and in the OS, and it seems to be running nicely ... if I shut it down, and try unplugging it from the wall and back in again, it has a 50-50 chance of booting ... Everything seems okay, even when it doesn't boot ... I can get into iLO, I can do 'power on' and hear the fans all wind up, and the drive lights all come on ... but it does those 2 beeps after a period of time, and no POST screen, no nothing ... When I first set it up, my first thought was memory, so I pulled them all out, no difference ... re-seated them all and it booted ... so, at that time, I figured I must have not seated them right the first time and all was well ... Thoughts / ideas? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664