Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:53:01 GMT From: Charles Hedrick <hedrick@rutgers.edu> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/140066: install report for 8.0 RC 2 Message-ID: <200910290153.n9T1r1BN039966@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200910290200.n9T20Bii078765@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 140066 >Category: misc >Synopsis: install report for 8.0 RC 2 >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Oct 29 02:00:11 UTC 2009 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Charles Hedrick >Release: 8.0 RC 2 >Organization: Rutgers University >Environment: >Description: I installed 8.0 RC 2 this evening. I had a number of problems, which I thought you would want to know about. The system is HP L2000 laptop. This is a few years old. It's a Turion 64 processor, 1 GB, ATI mbility 200. The major devices work except for the Broadcom 430x wireless. Actually the reason I tried 8.0 is that it has the bwi support. Sysinstall crashed sometime after creating users when I hit "OK" The system crashes a lot. No obvious cause. One time I was in a shell in gnome with nothing else going on and "who" crashed it. No error messages. It instantly reboots. I can't get the bwi driver installed. I added if_bwi_enable="YES". There's no sign in dmesg that it had any effect, and ifconfig -a doesn't show bwi. I didn't install the firmware package an instructed in "man bwi." (I think this is a bad idea, by the way. You shouldn't need to use the network to get what you need to make a network interface work. It's the primary network on that machine.) The crashing and lack of bwi make it pretty much unusable on this system. I installed it on a Windows 7 system. Windows 7 no longer boots. It can't find boot mgr. The configuration is a small (100 MB) recovery partition, Windows 7, and Freebsd. Minor things you may or may not want to deal with: If the Freebsd DVD is installed there's no obviosu way to boot from disk. I recommend having the CD boot screen include a "boot from disk" option. During kernel startup, it prints a warning that partition 1, 2, 3 do not start on a track boundary. Your partitioner set them up, in automatic mode. If you want to start on a track boundary you should do so. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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