>Also as the Moore's law curve flattens expect the life of these >older, but not so old, machines to live quiet some time. I >believe we are talking sandy bridge and earlier? If that is >corret Sandy bridge is still a very viable system.
I noticed this lack of love for older systems recently. I wanted to use an older Dell server to test the 11.2 BETAs and RCs. Turns out, you can't install FreeBSD using a USB stick image because the BIOS only support MBR. No idea why MBR support was dropped for the USB images. In the end I had to find a CD burner, and after a couple of tries managed to install from CD. After that, my ansible playbooks started failing because /boot/loader.conf is absent if you boot from zfs in combination with MBR. Pity. This older server hardware is great for trying out new releases, play with zfs, etc. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
