From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 06:09:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0948D16A417 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:09:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (mail.1command.com [75.160.109.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0EB413C43E for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:09:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from mail.1command.com (localhost.1command.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m026931B005572 for ; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 22:09:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: (from www@localhost) by mail.1command.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id m02693hJ005571 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 1 Jan 2008 22:09:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris#@1command.com) Received: from hitme.hitometer.net (hitme.hitometer.net [75.160.109.235]) by webmail.1command.com (H.R. Communications Messaging System) with HTTP; Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:09:02 -0800 Message-ID: <20080101220902.ku39h3rxcgks8goo@webmail.1command.com> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:09:02 -0800 From: "Chris H." To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: H.R. Communications Internet Messaging System (HCIMS) 4.1 Professional (not for redistribution) / FreeBSD-5.5 Subject: 7B4: kernel messages garbled X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:09:12 -0000 Hello, and happy New Year to all! I'm hoping to update all our servers to 7 in the near future. As such, I'm experimenting with it on one of our less prominent production servers. My procedure for it's installation and usage: download 7-CURRENT disk1 iso (B4) from nearest freebsd mirror install choice - minimum + src make config options, reboot download cvsup-no-gui pkg cvsup ports + src (above procedures performed 2007-12-30) (above procedures again performed on 2007-12-31) In every case, I wiped the hard drive, performing a fresh install. After initial install. Sending a halt, in order to reboot the system results in garbled messages to the console. Specifically, the Syncing disks... message is unintelligible. As does is line preceding it. Also. After syncing the source, I altered/renamed GENERIC and performed build/world/kernel, and install/kernel/world. During the buildworld process I recieved more warnings than I can recall seeing in previous versions <= 6. ee (aee) resulted in "Illegal instruction... core dumped" after the build/install process. FWIW this is on an i386 2 proc MB. Given the many changes in 7, I spent more time reading the doc's and errata than I have spent in previous versions. Thank you for all your time and attention to this matter. -- panic: kernel trap (ignored)