Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 13:14:07 +0200 From: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> To: Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.cn85.dnsmgr.net>, "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>, "A. Wilcox" <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver Message-ID: <CAPS9%2BStT-%2BQPm2t=t5h77ehc5eeMXwCbtHf3ooCoUCPGgYPxHw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <m1fLQNs-0000G0C@stereo.hq.phicoh.net> References: <201805222212.w4MMCdA9031937@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <m1fLQNs-0000G0C@stereo.hq.phicoh.net>
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On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 11:48 AM, Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com> wrote: > >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. > It's not that hard create a mbr based usb-stick. Far easier than to find a CD burner. > > 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. > I believe boot/loader.conf is something you have to create, it is not there by default. > > 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-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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