OEM hard disk replication

[Chadley Wilson]

> >> You may be in too much of a hurry to answer this (please don't swear
> >> at me), but what exactly fails when you put the duplicated disks in
> another machine?
> > [>] I get a kernel panic message
> >
>
> What did it say? Something about root?
[>]
I now get on every 4th or 5th machine Kernel Panic, not enough free memory.

Now first off, all the hardware is identical, all our machines get a OEM bios flash. The same flash is applied to all machines.
In the testing scenario some of the machines are flashed and some are not. The duplicated disk fails on some which are flashed and some which are not.
So it confirms that the flash is not the problem.

If I take a failed disk out of the machine it failed in, and plug it into a machine where another duplicated disk works, it also works... So the disk has duplicated properly.
I checked that the sata connectors are all plugged into the same port on all the test machines. But still I get Kernel Panic on some machines.

On one machine I booted to the root console and then I ran startx and the machine freezes. I suspect this could be something in the display driver or the xorg system.
The xorg system as I understand generates it configuration dynamically on each boot. So how can I modify it for experimental purposes?

Any ideas on what else I can play with?

Thanks to all you have been a great help so far...


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