From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 17 20:40:27 2009 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 D70F91065677 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:40:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grarpamp@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9637F8FC26 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:40:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grarpamp@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so904602qwb.7 for ; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:40:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=u6lxaPT6F7eu04hOO5yhXqMfJdwtyFey5f6PbothEdY=; b=tYwNiK0n5onkpOVpEJhsyYeqjUNAaueE5OyhBXP9aj7oMDhfQXfaNOTncihEkGm2vT Lh8bMWoGq/k2pFoxW/q0NtjFgwcqkT9lJbgoSzH7vo62Vv/aP1tZ66Dqcd8oxImM0Qc7 QLK27i9yG07ZVGCYPf6ZjihKr1qsZs5TRDDRA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=XV6bfp6/Kw3GoxvY3IW+pNv2qB+cXrwq3RnvoBjXxu2vt+yf5Hz87oKRpvSUnkK4TF LbMqMr1ldnPV8alw6oQaPhwYJXKPXB/LiGuf7R2gcO1DgwH+joxV8PGePr7fjop1KmAa ahAGPg+wG1ox9IPWzhfAGEwHwiowcs1MC+/mI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.2.74 with SMTP id 10mr4382087qai.260.1240000826901; Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:40:26 -0400 Message-ID: From: grarpamp To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: xi@borderworlds.dk Subject: CD install notes with 7.1R and 7.2RC1 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: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:40:28 -0000 I have a test machine. Nothing special except for the dell 2350 mobo. Everything works. Somehow I had 7.1-RELEASE on it already. I zeroed the disk to reinstall 7.1R from disc1. The install went fine. But when booting from disk I hit the loader skip_newlines issue: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2009-January/047996.html So I booted 7.1R disc1, set rootdev=disk1s1a, boot -sv, copied in the /boot/loader from the 7.2-RC1 base pkg and that worked to boot the freshly installed 7.1R from disk. So I figured to use 7.2-RC1 now, and zeroed the disk for that. However 7.2-RC1 disc1 won't boot on this hardware but does on an older system. It seems to try to access the disc but doesn't print anything on console and the BIOS passes and proceeds to onboard DHCP/PXE booting. Oh, and burncd burns discs with what looks like a bad offset into them. I've seen this before. Had to use cdrecord, and with that all the hashes for the cd's verify ok. All the firmwares are up to date and everything's plain vanilla. Sorry, three issues in one :) So this is just a report while I tinker more... in case anyone else is seeing these things. I'm guessing some strange CDROM speed or write quality issue, not showstoppers.