Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 15:20:47 +1100 From: Rob B <robbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> To: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 on a Cabriolet? Message-ID: <405BC69F.4050908@ozemail.com.au> In-Reply-To: <87y8pwiobj.fsf@strauser.com> References: <87y8pwiobj.fsf@strauser.com>
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Kirk Strauser wrote: > I'm using a PC64 (from dmesg: "Digital AlphaPC 64 274 MHz, 274MHz") with > three fxp cards as a firewall/router. The machine is currently running > 4.9-STABLE, but I imagine that I'll be needing to upgrade to 5.x at some > time soon when that becomes the stable branch. > > Right now, I'm using 5-CURRENT on a few x86 servers with great success, but > I don't want to attempt to upgrade my router until I feel fairly confident > that I can do it without too much downtime or emergency restoral from > backups. So, does anyone have an opinion on whether 5.2.1 would probably be > stable enough to upgrade at this time, or would I be better off waiting > until 5-STABLE comes along? > > On the one hand, I don't want to upgrade prematurely. On the other hand, I > don't want to wait until the 4-STABLE brance is completely dead so that I > have no real fallback position if I encounter some weird hardware > incompatibility. Kirk, I was never able to get anything higher that 5.1-RELEASE booting on this box I wrote: <snip> jumping to bootstrap code loading /boot/loader | halted CPU 0 halt code = 2 kernel stack not valid halt PC = 7000000f0000 boot failure There doesn't appear to be a /boot/loader.old that I can load either. I'm in the process of trying John Baldwins floppies - see recent posings on that cheers, Rob -- A man who fishes for marlin in ponds will put his money in Etruscan bonds. This is random quote 158 of 1254. Distance from the centre of the brewing universe [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian Public Key fingerprint = 6219 33BD A37B 368D 29F5 19FB 945D C4D7 1F66 D9C5
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