dell 1950 hangs on reboot

[Josh Paetzel]

On Friday 25 January 2008 08:18:10 am Link wrote:
> I`ve already upgraded to newest 2.01 bios. It does not fix problem.
>

Just reboot it via the IPMI, which dell calls the BMC.  They never hang when 
rebooted that way.

For some history....About 1/2 of the 1950's out there exhibit this problem, 
the other half don't, and no one (AFAIR) has identified what is different 
between a box that has the problem and one that doesn't.  Dell has a long 
history of making small changes mid-run and not documenting them.

If you are unlucky enoung to have a 1950 that hangs during reboot, it will do 
it between 25 and 30% of the time.

If only this were the biggest problem facing someone with FreeBSD on their 
1950....

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel

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