From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 16 11:45:20 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5E5037B404 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 11:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.squirrel-solutions.com (mail.squirrel-solutions.com [206.224.92.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 633DD43FBF for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 11:45:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@squirrel-solutions.com) Received: from misspiggy (doman114.thegateway.net [206.224.92.114]) h4GIkUcC004717 for ; Fri, 16 May 2003 13:46:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bill@squirrel-solutions.com) From: "Bill Doman" To: Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 13:49:02 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal Subject: Replacing MOBO, memory, etc. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 18:45:21 -0000 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