From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 1 00:04:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7918106566B for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:04:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from skeezix@skeleton.org) Received: from mail2.dm.egate.net (mail2.dm.egate.net [216.235.1.136]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B76F8FC08 for ; Mon, 1 Feb 2010 00:04:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fw.skeleton.org (h216-235-8-78.host.egate.net [216.235.8.78]) by mail2.dm.egate.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o1105BZE076493 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:05:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from fw.skeleton.org (fw.skeleton.org [127.0.0.1]) by fw.skeleton.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id o110CuCi064115 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:12:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from skeezix@skeleton.org) Received: from localhost (skeezix@localhost) by fw.skeleton.org (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) with ESMTP id o110Cu7q064112 for ; Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:12:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from skeezix@skeleton.org) X-Authentication-Warning: fw.skeleton.org: skeezix owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:12:56 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Mitchell cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <4B658FDC.1090301@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20100131191048.D36480@fw.skeleton.org> References: <20100130225014.C36480@fw.skeleton.org> <4B65670B.6070201@gmail.com> <201001311945.52469.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <4B658FDC.1090301@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:04:55 -0000 On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: # Not totally true. 5.4 was released in 2005 whereas newest motherboard with # which I faced personally problems booting from USB was from 2003. And it # actually declares that it can boot from USB. 5.4 seemed to actually have many issues with USB; some devices work, others cause kernel panics as soon as they hit the socket, so I generally avoid them on the machine (which causes no end of trouble for backups :) # However it's quite possible the hardware would not boot from USB stick. This An interesting idea to boot from USB here; I've often flirted with the idea of using the local-disk for storage, and the OS from flash media, and thus being able to swap easily without a hypervisor/etc. Anyway, as this box is a shell, mailserver, low end webserver etc, fairly dedicated in function, I think my best route will be to buy another disk (I mean, theyu're cheap right?) and do the jump straight to a fresh-8 install, harden it up, and do the piecemeal migration. Worst case is I go back to the existing drive for a few days until I get it all working. Thanks for the many tips my friends, jeff -- If everyone would put barbecue sauce on their food, there would be no war.