Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 10:13:02 +0100 From: Gafgo <nicolas.gafgo@bredband.net> To: "Matthew Seaman doublef@tele-kom.ru" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie question Message-ID: <400B9F9E.90101@bredband.net> In-Reply-To: <20040120085925.GA44545@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <400B18A1.3050104@bredband.net> <20040120085925.GA44545@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Matthew Seaman wrote: >On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Gafgo wrote: > > >>Hello there! I am a newbie to FreeBSD but have read a lot of handbooks. >>I have also installed different versions on my old computer just to >>practice (incl 4.8, 4.9, 5.0, 5.1). Now I have bought a new computer and >>wanted to install 4.9 for real. But during boot up this happened: >>ad0: REAL command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting >>ata0: resetting devices... >>and there it hangs. When I tried 5.1 I had no problem. Could it be a >>hardware problem?? >> >> > >It sounds to me as if your new machine has hardware which is supported >under 5.x but not 4.9. That's a very good reason to install 5.2 -- >caveats about "early adopters" notwithstanding, by all accounts 5.2 is >turning out nicely. I'd worry about using it for a system that was >mission critical to a business (read: financial consequences if it >isn't up and running), but for a home system I think it would do very >well. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > > Thank you both for your help. IŽll go for 5.2.
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