Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:37:02 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@tundraware.com> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New != Faster Message-ID: <4664DA5E.9000403@tundraware.com> In-Reply-To: <4664CE3C.4010108@u.washington.edu> References: <466451CA.6020108@tundraware.com> <4664572A.4060003@freebsd.org> <3aaaa3a0706041254r257e1480g872faa6e504df6dc@mail.gmail.com> <46646FCC.9060908@tundraware.com> <4664CE3C.4010108@u.washington.edu>
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Garrett Cooper wrote: > Tim Daneliuk wrote: >> It will be of academic interest to me to see how people respond to this. >> Unfortunately - as documented in my original post - the 4.11 CD will >> not even boot on this new motherboard for some reason. Given that, and >> that 4.x is no longer actively developed, I am forced to move to 6.x for >> my next server ... > Most likely because of the evolution of the FreeBSD kernel and increased > hardware support over time. A lot of CDs won't boot on my C2D system, > but that's because the HW is too new to run with older CDs, similar to > issues seen with other OSes like Linux and Windoze. > -Garrett This is, of course, the normal order of technology progress. It just seems odd to me that the 4.11 CD is blowing up claiming an RTC error on a new mobo. I'd understand if it failed because it could not recognize the processor, or the Northbridge/Southbridge hardware, but I'm guessing that not a lot has changed with RTC hardware. Then again, this error could be an artifact of some other silent problem. In any case, I am working on recreating my (rather complex) standard server configuration on 6.2 ... it was time anyway. I will miss 4.x, however. It has been rock solid with nary a blip for many years now (as was 2.x and 3.x before it). Maybe I'm just getting old ;) -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@tundraware.com PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/
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