From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 03:37:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A777A16A4E5 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 03:37:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from eskimo.tundraware.com (eskimo.tundraware.com [66.92.130.161]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43C8813C487 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 03:37:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (viper.tundraware.com [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated bits=0) by eskimo.tundraware.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l553b31B062564 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 4 Jun 2007 22:37:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tundra@tundraware.com) Message-ID: <4664DA5E.9000403@tundraware.com> Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:37:02 -0500 From: Tim Daneliuk Organization: TundraWare Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Cooper , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <466451CA.6020108@tundraware.com> <4664572A.4060003@freebsd.org> <3aaaa3a0706041254r257e1480g872faa6e504df6dc@mail.gmail.com> <46646FCC.9060908@tundraware.com> <4664CE3C.4010108@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <4664CE3C.4010108@u.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-tundraware.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.399, required 1, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-tundraware.com-MailScanner-From: tundra@tundraware.com X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Subject: Re: New != Faster X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: tundra@tundraware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:37:10 -0000 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/