Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 19:09:52 -0600 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Jay Chandler <chandler@chapman.edu> Subject: Re: Dell PE 1950 - Only seeing 3.2 gigs of ram Message-ID: <200701111909.52695.josh@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <45A596FC.8040907@chapman.edu> References: <f17daf040701101347r4fa8f639u2421bff95a47f61@mail.gmail.com> <ba29b9b40701101738v29618198lb9a6999176091b6a@mail.gmail.com> <45A596FC.8040907@chapman.edu>
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On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:46, Jay Chandler wrote: > > On a related note for this hardware platform, has anyone gotten > past the "randomly decides not to reboot when told to" issue? > Requires a hard shutdown by hand, as the console becomes completely > non-responsive. I've heard of this problem, some people have it all the time and others don't have it at all on the PE 1950. I suspect it has something to do with the way Dell will occassionally change hardware mid-run and not tell anyone. :) The solution is to enable the IPMI board and use that to reboot it. (Dell calls it a BMC but you can access it with standard IPMI utilities) -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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