From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 29 02:00:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7340106568F for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B368FC14 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9T20BWm078768 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:11 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9T20Bii078765; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:11 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Resent-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:11 GMT Resent-Message-Id: <200910290200.n9T20Bii078765@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org (GNATS Filer) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, Charles Hedrick Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32580106566B for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:53:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nobody@FreeBSD.org) Received: from www.freebsd.org (www.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 215CC8FC19 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:53:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9T1r1fQ039967 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:53:01 GMT (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9T1r1BN039966; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:53:01 GMT (envelope-from nobody) Message-Id: <200910290153.n9T1r1BN039966@www.freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:53:01 GMT From: Charles Hedrick To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: www-3.1 Cc: Subject: misc/140066: install report for 8.0 RC 2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:00:15 -0000 >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: