Archive for the ‘Operating Systems’ Category

FreeBSD 4.x SMP kernel panic on non-SMP machine

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Following the death this afternoon of a (somewhat critical) FreeBSD 4 machine here in the office, I hurriedly swapped the hard disk out of it's original machine (a white-box Pentium 4 of some description which hangs every few minutes) in to the first available "spare" machine I found; a single ...

FreeBSD 6.2 on Dell Poweredge SC440

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

The Dell Poweredge SC440 is an entry level "tower" server designed for small business environments. We have a couple of these in the rack in the office now, they're quite decent machines -- decently priced and well featured. Operating system support is generally good, it supports Linux out of the box ...