From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 14 15:37:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B90716A4CE for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:37:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3042943D1D for ; Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:37:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-current@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1As9Lq-0000ge-00 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 00:37:35 +0100 Received: from ppp-62-169.customer.wingnet.net ([206.30.62.169]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat Feb 14 23:37:35 2004 Received: from jesse by ppp-62-169.customer.wingnet.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat Feb 14 23:37:35 2004 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 18:37:30 -0500 Organization: WingNET Lines: 67 Message-ID: References: <402E3611.70804@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp-62-169.customer.wingnet.net User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 available X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:37:36 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > All, > > FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 is now available for downloading. Changes since the > RC1 include more bug fixes for ATA, working kernel modules on the > install floppies, and numerous security fixes to the src and XFree86 > packages. Note that the sparc64 XFree86-4-Server package in this set > does not have the latest updates. This will be fixed in the final > release. > > Please test this and let us know of any new problems. There are a > couple of minor changes in our queue that will be committed soon, > after which we expect to do the final release. Thanks! Attached > are the MD5 sums for the CD images. > > Scott I'm having great difficulty with 5.2.1-RC2. I installed from an ISO just this afternoon. Getting the installer running wasn't easy. I tried all of the usual tricks that have worked for me in the past under 5.1-RELEASE and 5.2-RELEASE: - set hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 - disabling ACPI But none of that helped. Without ACPI, my kernel would panic before starting sysinstall's device detection (somewhere before the keyboard probe). And WITH ACPI it would get further - to the sysinstall device detection screen, but promptly panic. Finally, I got it to install 5.2.1-RC2 by selecting "safe mode" from the loader menu. However, once the install completed I simply can't get the machine to boot without panicing - even if I choose "safe mode" from the loader menu. I never had these issues with 5.1-RELEASE or 5.2-RELEASE. I'm writing this on my old 5.2-RELEASE kernel. Also, before the prompt I noticed that the kernel was printing 'no interrupt' for ata-slave1, which would be my DVD-ROM. I've never seen that before, and I don't think it happened during the one successfull boot I made. I've taken a look at beastie.4th and I think I understand what "Safe Mode" is doing. But is it possible that it isn't properly overriding my custom defaults in /boot/loader.conf? acpi_load="NO" apm_load="YES" snd_ich_load="YES" hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 Perhaps my hw.ata.atapi_dma line is breaking things? I'll try playing with things at the boot prompt a bit to see if I can narrow things down. This release is definately less robust for me though - at least in the boot stages. Please note that I didn't get a chance to try 5.2.1-RC1, so I can't comment on any possible regression between RC versions. This is definately a regression from 5.2-RELEASE though. Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net