Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-27 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On 10/26/05, Alan Amesbury [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is pretty much classic Dell. We've purchased a number of systems without operating systems on which we run FreeBSD. However, they continually operate under the assumption that we are running Windoze or Linux, and expect those to do

Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-26 Thread Dan Charrois
On 10/25/05, Dan Charrois [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-26 Thread Alan Amesbury
Taken from the digest form, so hopefully I won't whack the formatting too badly. Dan Charrois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] 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

Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-26 Thread David Wolfskill
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 01:05:04AM -0400, Bryan Fullerton wrote: ... You didn't mention, have you run Dell diagnostics on the machine to rule out hardware issues? While those diagnostics may well demostrate that a problem exists, the lack of a problme is not demonstrated by a machine passing

Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-25 Thread Dan Charrois
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 Hard Drives: LSILogic PERC 4e/Di, configured as RAID 5, with 3 X 40 Gb disks OS

Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-25 Thread Jayton Garnett
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 Hard Drives: LSILogic PERC 4e/Di, configured as RAID 5, with 3 X 40 Gb disks OS: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 for amd64

Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-25 Thread Jase Thew
Jayton Garnett wrote: Hello, You should be using the IA-64 version of FreeBSD as these are Intel chips and nor AMD chips? FreeBSD 5.4 IA-64 is for the Intel EM64T/Xeon/Itainium CPU's, FreeBSD 5.4 AMD64 is for the AMD 64/x2/Opteron/FX CPU's. You will have more luck using the IA-64 release, I

Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem

2005-10-25 Thread Bryan Fullerton
On 10/25/05, Dan Charrois [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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