On 03/06/12 19:03, Olli Hauer wrote: > On 2012-03-06 17:09, O. Hartmann wrote: >> Hello. >> >> Well, I run on a brand new "luxury" box the newest Intel CPU >> Sandy-Brideg-E in its incarnation of the Core i7-X3930K on a decent ASUS >> workstation motherboard. The box is running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE/amd64 at >> the moment. >> I discovered some "problems" with the SATA/AHCI interface. Since the >> peripherial hardware didn't change, except mainboard and CPU (and a lot >> of more memory), I guess FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE does have some issues with >> the new hardware. So I'd like to use FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64, which I >> use successfully on an oldish two core Core2Duo box. >> >> VirtualBox, for instance, on the FBSD 9.0 box with the new hardware, >> stops working from time to time, the Windows-7 is getting stuck. The >> implication, that FreeBSD 9 can not handle the new hardware is wrong at >> that point, since even the VBox could have it's issues with the new 6 >> core Sandy Bridge-E, but the issues with the SATA 6GB subsystems are >> "real". Sometimes the system gets stuck. >> >> Well, I tried to switch by doing a "svn switch" in /usr/src, building a >> kernel, restarting the kernel in single user mode and then trying to >> build the world. At some point in /usr/src/share (I forgot were exactly, >> it was somewhere with lots of locale stuff), the buildworld process >> fails so I couldn't build a world. >> >> It wouldn't be bad if the "switch" isn't possible at the moment by >> simply switching the sources, but I'm still inclined to give the new >> hardware the propper new OS - hoping, that new driver will pay tribute >> to new hardware ... >> >> >> Thanks for your comments in advance, >> Oliver >> > > > Maybe you can reach your update goal faster... > > From your mails to current I know you already have a box running FBSD 10. > > My way to upgrade machines is to share / rsync /usr/src from a central > machine to all others, same for /usr/obj if the architectur match. > Do not forget to sync also make.conf/src.conf and runing mergemaster. > > If the machine is alive after the fast upgrade you can experiment > with different src.conf / kernel settings. > Well, in my case one box is at home (the FBSD 10.0-CUR/amd64) and switched off ... the box which is supposed to be updated is in my lab and still in front of me and at the moment I see no chance to switch the other box on ;-) Well, I thought I do it the hard way - having a running system and carefully migrate ... The new hardware is trmendously fast, so compiling the whole bunch of ports (~ 1000) will take not that long. But at the moment I get plagued by an error when "make buildworld" ... Regards Oliver P.S. By the way: thanks!
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