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Date:      Thu, 27 Oct 2005 15:36:37 -0400
From:      Bryan Fullerton <fehwalker@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Strange crashing/rebooting problem
Message-ID:  <35de0c300510271236w7ee57f1egb62c368d4fc571be@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <435FA940.1030303@umn.edu>
References:  <20051026120114.93D4A16A41F@hub.freebsd.org> <435FA940.1030303@umn.edu>

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On 10/26/05, Alan Amesbury <amesbury@umn.edu> 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 things like BIOS updates.

Have you tried running the Linux versions under FreeBSD's Linux
emulation? I haven't tried this yet either, but that'd be my first
whack at it.

> These links
>
>     ftp://ftp.dell.com/diags/ED5061A0.tar.gz
>     ftp://ftp.dell.com/diags/EI5061A0.ZIP
>
>     ftp://ftp.dell.com/diags/MP1038A0.tar.gz
>     ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/diags/MP1038A0.zip
>
> point at the Dell 32-bit diagnostics (first pair) and the memory
> diagnostics utilities (second pair).

Yes, those are the diagnostics I was thinking of.

Bryan



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