Thanks for the advice titi!
My brother is a hardware person and he blames these cheap capacitors that came out of a Chinese company and proliferated all around the world for most motherboard failures too, but he doesn't setup servers often anymore, so he didn't have any advice for me on motherboards. He claims to be a benifactor of those capacitors because he's gotten a lot of dead motherboards that he's brought back by replacing them (and, of course, he built systems out of them and sold them as used computers
).
I did speak with tech support this morning and apparently, it's at the end of my initrd LVM recovery script and the pivot root failed (this is my own script and I hope it didn't fail because I screwed something up and it failed to properly recover the root partition). They're going to hook up IP KVM for me later so I can troubleshoot it, but I may just have them shut it down if the hardware is so hosed that it will just corrupt the hard drives (more). I hate doing data recovery.
Anyway, earlier this year the power supply died and I replaced it with what appeared a good power supply back in May. Of course, it's possible that when it died it spiked 1st and did some damage that didn't surface until now. I'll just list the current configuration, as well as I know it:
So is "server" hardware supposed to be more stable? I know it's more expensive. Maybe I should just invest in some real server hardware (if it isn't too expensive to do that).
