31.07.2019 22:30, mike tancsa wrote: > While moving a pair of ZFS disks from an *very* old motherboard to a new > one, I ran into an odd problem I had not seen before. The box was > running just fine RELENG_10 from FreeBSD 10.1-STABLE #18 r279918 on 10yr > old MB. Boots normally and expected speeds for old hardware/CPU. But on > the new one, as soon as the |\-/|\ starts spinning, it looks like its > 1/100th of the speed it should be. Unfortunately, we didnt have the > luxury to wait for it to boot up all the way. We put the disks back in > the old motherboard, did the RELENG_11 upgrade which included putting in > the new boot blocks after zpool upgrade and then the disks booted just > fine in the new box. We at first thought it was a hardware issue, but > same behaviour on another new MB, new SATA cables etc etc. > > Any idea what was going on behind the scenes that might have caused it > ? Is there something about the way the old boot blocks would interact > poorly with new motherboards (in this case, a SuperMicro X11SSH-F) ?
Maybe it attempted dual-console boot involving output to serial port... _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"