OEM hard disk replication

[Christopher Chan]

On Wednesday, March 03, 2010 03:45 PM, Chadley Wilson wrote:
>>>> 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.

Have you tested the hardware? In this case, RAM.


>
> 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.

Same panic as above?


>
> 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?

Again...test RAM?


>
> Any ideas on what else I can play with?

memtest....