Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading) - solved

2006-05-29 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/5/29, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Mon, 29 May 2006 11:50:56 +0200, Martin Schrvder wrote: > PS2 is _NOT_ hot-pluggable. Uuh, never occurred to me before. Good to learn something new each and every day ! Except of the servers being down, I don't usually do it. That means when the net

Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading) - solved

2006-05-29 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Mon, 29 May 2006 11:50:56 +0200, Martin Schrvder wrote: > PS2 is _NOT_ hot-pluggable. Uuh, never occurred to me before. Good to learn something new each and every day ! Except of the servers being down, I don't usually do it. That means when the network is down, and you don't have a keyboard

Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading) - solved

2006-05-29 Thread Martin Schröder
2006/5/29, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Now, since it didn't reboot properly, I went to the server room and attached a PS2-keyboard to the running machine. This seems to make the PS2 is _NOT_ hot-pluggable. Hot-plugging PS2 may even damage your mainboard (happend on some IBM-workstations).

Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading) - solved

2006-05-29 Thread Uwe Dippel
Thanks for everyone jumping in and helping out so fast ! - More more than I'd ever expect !! This - as they say - rocks ! Okay, (as usual) a part of the blame was on me; stupid, panic, you-name-it. And one part on the system: The machine is run fully through serial console, including boot. It a

Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading)

2006-05-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
Matthew Closson wrote: On Mon, 29 May 2006, Uwe Dippel wrote: I have tried the archives and google, but didn't find any good pointer (maybe a problem of keywords ?): After some 20 cycles of power outage / restore - that is some twenty crashes - a database server of mine doesn't reboot any long

Re: box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading)

2006-05-28 Thread Matthew Closson
On Mon, 29 May 2006, Uwe Dippel wrote: I have tried the archives and google, but didn't find any good pointer (maybe a problem of keywords ?): After some 20 cycles of power outage / restore - that is some twenty crashes - a database server of mine doesn't reboot any longer. It gets stuck at boo

box freezes immediately at boot (kernel loading)

2006-05-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
I have tried the archives and google, but didn't find any good pointer (maybe a problem of keywords ?): After some 20 cycles of power outage / restore - that is some twenty crashes - a database server of mine doesn't reboot any longer. It gets stuck at booting hd0a:/bsd 4804448+939504 [52+247296