2008/10/10 Rahul Nabar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Thanks John. I will do that. A question: how likely is it that this is > a software issue and not hardware from my symptoms? They keep harping > on the fact that I am running a non-validated OS.
I have had that line from a few companies. Looks like you are talking to first or second line support people - this is what they have been trained to say. You can understand this - it stops idiots calling in to them who are trying to run some spit-and-sawdust distribution they got free with a packet of breakfast serial. Again, just use your salesman or account manager and say that you spent $$$ with Dell to run applications, and that the systems were sold to you as being able to run Linux. > I have the latest. But that's only based on the version #. I will dig > deeper. Could this be bad BIOS, though, from the symptoms? So, some > code somewhere switches the state of that LED from blue to orange and > if only I knew what the trigger was supposed to be. Someone had to > write that! The light coming on indicates a fault. You should be interrogating the onboard management controller (called an IPMI card ort a BMC, or in Dell speak I think a DRAC). Log onto the suspect nodes anr run ipmitool: ipmitool -I open sel elist Do you not get a fault code on the little screen beside the light?
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