From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 6 16:19:30 2006 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 2E05F16A41F for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:19:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rhempel@bmts.com) Received: from mail.bmts.com (mail.bmts.com [216.183.128.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EDC43D46 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:19:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rhempel@bmts.com) Received: from [192.168.254.102] (cheetah-bar-ppp054.bmts.com [216.183.159.55]) by mail.bmts.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k06GBi4a027389 for ; Fri, 6 Jan 2006 11:11:45 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <43BE98F3.3000507@bmts.com> Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:21:07 -0500 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: freebsd-stable References: <20060106135717.GA20651@llama.fishballoon.org> <43BE8304.2010709@kernel32.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rhempel@bmts.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:19:30 -0000 > I've never enabled the DRAC card on any dell I have that came with them... Hmmm. The DRAC card can save you a long drive sometimes. You actually get to look at the hardware boot process and can even adjust BIOS settings if needed. To get to a FreeBSD console, I think that the OS actually needs to boot. The DRAC lets you control the server BEFORE the OS is even loaded, all through a browser interface. Ralph