Hi all. "Funny" story..
At home I installed OpenBSD on some old i386 hardware years ago. Since I do a lot of work at home I have a small homenetwork. From time to time I upgrade hardware, and sometimes I change the disks as well, when I get some bigger ones. Anyway, my old OpenBSD installation has been upgraded twice, yes I neglected it. It has been moved physically from different machines, from Intel onto AMD, and the other way around. It has even been moved from disk to disk, using a homemade tar and gtar solution. It has been turned off regulary, without using halt or shutdown. It has been running without shutdown months at a time, and it has suffered different kinds of physically abuse when I moved from one house to another. It has suffered all kind of crack attempts - none succesfull. It has been used as a fileserver on nfs, as a dhcp server, as a firewall, as a database server, and a lot of other stuff. At last I could not remember anything about how it actually was running. Yesterday it suffered a powersupply failure, but it didn't even grunt. In all that time, during all that suffering, it did no go down even once. It never ever suffered any dataloss from the many physically shutdowns. It was as stable as a solid rock. Well all things come to an end, so I finally decided to kill it slowly by night, removing all "important" files, doing a fresh install of 4.0 and exspecting the same rock solid performance. Now, besides the work I do with BSD, sometimes I work with GNU/Linux as well. I had to mess a bit with a Debian box, and while it was open I noticed that I had switched the primary and secondary IDE cabels. It doesn't matter ofcourse, the machine boots anyway, buuut I like it to be where it should be, primary master on the primary cabel, so I switched the cabels. What happened? Well, the machine didn't want to boot - go figured!! ;-) Had that been my old OpenBSD installation I would exspect it to have booted off the floppy controller by mistake and I wouldn't even notice! ;-))) Rico.
