Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 11:21:07 -0500 From: Ralph Hempel <rhempel@bmts.com> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.0 on Dell 1850 with DRAC4 management card? Message-ID: <43BE98F3.3000507@bmts.com> In-Reply-To: <DD400FE7-3B39-42E2-BD97-169D0CFAE565@khera.org> References: <20060106135717.GA20651@llama.fishballoon.org> <43BE8304.2010709@kernel32.de> <DD400FE7-3B39-42E2-BD97-169D0CFAE565@khera.org>
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> 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
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