I had a very similar experience with a Dell PowerEdge 2800
recently, not even 3 weeks have elapsed!
The problem, as we realized from some Dell engineer, was with
the firmware on the mobo of this model.
I was running FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE on the box.
I bought HP ML350, migrated the whole setup to it
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Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 3:59 AM
To: BSD Guy
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: rebooting and crashes on dell server
For what it's worth, I have a PowerEdge 1650 - twin cpu's 1 Gbyte
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
You need to load an OS supported by Dell - ie: Windows -
on this system first and run some stress-testers on it and
see if it locks up. If it does not then try Linux and if that
works, you either use Linux or call Dell and tell them to make it
work with FreeBSD or your
On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 11:38 +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
You need to load an OS supported by Dell - ie: Windows -
on this system first and run some stress-testers on it and
see if it locks up. If it does not then try Linux and if that
works, you either use Linux or
BSD Guy wrote:
Theres alot to this problem, but I'll try to be
concise so I don't loose people. I started out with a
cheap dell server running scsi raid and 5.x It
crashed or locked up with a kernel panic in a
different process (everything, syslog, you name it)
ever few days. I swapped ram
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: rebooting and crashes on dell server
Theres alot to this problem, but I'll try to be
concise so I don't loose people. I started out with a
cheap dell server running scsi raid and 5.x It
crashed or locked up with a kernel panic in a
different process
Theres alot to this problem, but I'll try to be
concise so I don't loose people. I started out with a
cheap dell server running scsi raid and 5.x It
crashed or locked up with a kernel panic in a
different process (everything, syslog, you name it)
ever few days. I swapped ram around figuring it
