OEM hard disk replication

[Chadley Wilson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Christopher Chan
> Sent: 03 March 2010 10:05 AM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: OEM hard disk replication
>
> 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.
>
[>] Yip...

>
> >
> > 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?
[>] Yes
>
>
> >
> > 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?
>
[>] Yes...
>
> >
> > Any ideas on what else I can play with?
>
> memtest....
>
[>] Already tried... Not  a hardware fault.

[>] It seems the not enough free memory is referring to the Swap partition.
Not ram...
I will have to go write down the error...

Will get back to you...


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