On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Srebrenko Sehic wrote: > > When booting, "RTC BIOS diagnostic error 2" is displayed, I'm not sure if > > that's relevant. > > You might want to investigate that. Not sure, but I don't remember > seeing that error on the X4200 boxes I had tested. BIOS update might > be relevant. Perhaps it's also caused by bad hardware.
I just installed on an identical system, which gives the same error during boot :(. They both have the latest bios installed. > I have not seen any stability problems with my X4200 deployments. They > are not running as network firewalls, but as application level > proxies, so the error you are seeing could be due to higher pps count. > Unlike you, I didn't put anything non-stock in the box. 4 built-in > NICs where enough for my purposes. The system seems to run stable until I put load on the multiport fiber adapter. I recompiled the entire operating system with no issues. > USB layer doesn't work in ddb> so you'll need the serial working to > get useful debug data. Did you get serial working on your x4200 boxes? I tried not configuring the OpenBSD serial console and using BIOS redirection, that didn't work. I also tried disabling BIOS redirection and configuring explicit OpenBSD serial console support, but still nothing showed up when I connected to the remote management console interface. The only thing I haven't tried is physically connecting to the local serial port on the hardware itself. -- Paul B. Henson | (909) 979-6361 | http://www.csupomona.edu/~henson/ Operating Systems and Network Analyst | [EMAIL PROTECTED] California State Polytechnic University | Pomona CA 91768
