What hardware, what is common between the ones that crash
> The biggest problem of all is that we do not know the reason for
> the crash, the kernel produces no output, the screen is blank, no
> keyboard, no network, no nothing.
> I would like to find the answer to our problems, as these server
> problems are not rare. But since these problems only occur on
> live systems, what's the best way to go about trying to tackle
> this ?
#1. A serial console will grab a large crash dump.
Firstly though - is the box SMP ?
Is it a socket 7 based board (eg K6), if so does turning off the BIOS APM
and the USB support in the BIOS help.
Do you see any other oddities - weird core dumps etc ?
Alan
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