Archive for August, 2009

How to reset the BIOS on a Dell M610 blade to the defaults

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

There are (hypothetically) two ways:

in the bios: caps lock + num lock + scroll lock + alt-f

you have to be on the kvm for this to work, or at least I assume, because it didn’t work over idrac for me

jumper shuffle

shut down the blade, pull it out of the chassis, open it up, find the nvram_clr jumper (see picture), toggle it, put it all back together, boot up, watch for the “restoring factory defaults” message (or something like that, I didn’t get to see it, colo hands-and-eyes guy did), power the blade down again, pull it out, open it up, flip the jumper back, put it together again, re-rack, power up and hit F1… done.

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convergance!

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Headline says it all: XtraDB has been commited to MariaDB

Looks like the Open Database Alliance is paying off:

XtraDB has been commited to MariaDB server and will be included in binary releases of MariaDB (scheduled on end of August – September) as replacement of InnoDB storage engine.

Combine this with OurDelta kinda going dormant, you’ve got all the major forks and add-ons combining into one unified build in MariaDB. This’ll give us something to run for the next year or two before we all switch to drizzle.