Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 13:49:02 -0500 From: "Bill Doman" <bill@squirrel-solutions.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Replacing MOBO, memory, etc. Message-ID: <GHEDJGIMBCHCMBINIAIIKEPCCEAA.bill@squirrel-solutions.com>
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I have a FreeBSD 4.8 Release box that serves as my organization's mail server and also does some light Samba file serving. It's a K6-2 500 and I've wanted for a while to upgrade to an Athlon. So to test, I built up a similar box, pulled the hard drive and put it in the new chassis. Ran fine for a couple days. So I then took the new chassis to my office, changed /etc/rc.conf to reflect that the new chassis had a Linksys instead of 3COM card, shut down the old and moved over the hard drive. All seemed well at first--mail being served, could SSH into the box, but it locked up hard after about 3 minutes with the only recourse a power-off reboot. Repeated exactly the same behavior. The other major diff in the new was a Nvidia TNT2 card--when I moved that to the old box, along with the hard drive, the system ran fine (kept serving mail, etc.), but the video output went blank. I *was* able to SSH into it and do a graceful shutdown. After replacing the video card (old one is a S3 Trio 64, God help us all!), it seems healthy again. I've got 586 and 686 support in the kernel. Any ideas on a better way to do this? TIA, Bill Doman, Systems Admin, Hospice Austin
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