System Continously Reboots

[Ayman Altounji]

I have several machines including DL360S, DL380S, & DL580S that have gone into "endless reboot" mode. Previously, the only way I have found to fix this problem is to completely blow the OS & Array configuration array & start from scratch. However, now I have important data on some of the machines that I can't loose & would prefer not to start over from scratch yet again. I realize that I could swap the drives out into another machine, but that would defeat the purpose of solving this problem. There has been no pattern as to when a machine will start this. It has happened after everything from adding more memory to entering ip info & having to reboot. I have search the entire compaq website for info & the only this I was able to find (doing a search for constant reboot) was on a training page with information that was needed to pass a test. It listed constant reboot under CPU problems. Any help or suggestions anyone has would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

Lindsay Brunetto

[Ayman Altounji]

You could try and disable the Automatic Server Recovery. Hit f10 when booting up then hit ctrl a this will enable the advanced options. Scroll down to you see Asr

[Ayman Altounji]

Hi,

we had the same Problem once with two of our first DL360 plus CPU Upgrade.
We found out that the Heatsink wasn't installed correctly.

We experienced reboots every 5 -7 minutes.

[Ayman Altounji]

My DL360 crashes and reboots after _exactly_ 5 hrs of uptime, every time.

I've tried deaktivating ASR, removing the ILO card, replaced the ram / cpu / disks, upgraded the system rom to P21 (08/03/2001) and upgraded the Smart array firmware to 1.50.

Does anyone here know what's up with this machine?

Specs: Dual 866 / 512+128 ram, 36+Gb disk, Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 and/or 3.0, RIS,
Kernels 2.2.17 though to 2.2.20 + 2.4.18.