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18.1 Legacy Series / Re: Booting issue on a HP T610 thin client
« on: May 10, 2018, 08:27:45 am »
@SK
System boots and and I have run the installer and configured a base system using the 32bit installer media, so it does seem to be some issue / incompatibility with CPU & FreeBSD 11.x x64.
For me it's not the end of the world running it in 32bit mode with 4GB of RAM. I grabbed it on ebay as a cheap alternative to replacing my ageing alix2d3 (1x500Mhz CPU256MB Ram) with a PC Engines APU2c4 (4x1Ghz CPU 4GB)
The old Alix2D3 with OpnSense 18.1 works fine as a basic FW/Router for a 80/20 VDSL Connection, but is very slow when navigating around the UI, so this will be more than enough for my needs without the expense of getting a new APU2 board.
It looks to be pulling about 22W of power when in use with an additional PCI-E single port nic and a 16GB SSD. Compared to the APU2 which uses about 6w the 16w of extra electricity usage means it's cheaper buy a T610 2nd hand and run it for 5-7 years before the APU2 would break even TCO.
System boots and and I have run the installer and configured a base system using the 32bit installer media, so it does seem to be some issue / incompatibility with CPU & FreeBSD 11.x x64.
For me it's not the end of the world running it in 32bit mode with 4GB of RAM. I grabbed it on ebay as a cheap alternative to replacing my ageing alix2d3 (1x500Mhz CPU256MB Ram) with a PC Engines APU2c4 (4x1Ghz CPU 4GB)
The old Alix2D3 with OpnSense 18.1 works fine as a basic FW/Router for a 80/20 VDSL Connection, but is very slow when navigating around the UI, so this will be more than enough for my needs without the expense of getting a new APU2 board.
It looks to be pulling about 22W of power when in use with an additional PCI-E single port nic and a 16GB SSD. Compared to the APU2 which uses about 6w the 16w of extra electricity usage means it's cheaper buy a T610 2nd hand and run it for 5-7 years before the APU2 would break even TCO.