From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 15 14:31:11 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3DAD41E for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6409A2C71 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 14:31:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lemon ([80.7.17.14]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lhwt0-1VKruB3SHy-00nDLk for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 15:31:09 +0100 Received: by lemon (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 48F93101999; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:23:59 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:23:58 +0000 From: symbolics@gmx.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 10-BETA3 install test; 3 issues Message-ID: <20131115102358.GA31778@lemon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:7nNYMKIQj9JoLHRMEqqZBH8fnX6WXJYufTGDYLaqeiFODQ3QBzj 2M69YXbFucmdvTx82R4xuvDXLSfwCduNbXaqsLRGbQh2DHD4A0ujG1cnNYONLKnRPW3Sy32 IRdWJald/d/HRVwaOlU5vCzneVg0GIN4665bfMbP462VGazPA3+WI79voyVabuXJZULWIPR aiVQAxTAjOOBBTIWDDy4A== X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 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, 15 Nov 2013 14:31:11 -0000 Hi I usually run -CURRENT but I stepped back to -BETA3 to test things before 10 goes out. I had a few problems. The most pressing being that the bootcode on the disc does not work on my laptop. The installation completed, I rebooted and the system tried to PXE boot. I then booted into the live CD and manually added the -b and -p bootcode, with the same result on the following boot. However, doing this process using a 9.1-RELEASE cd did get the system booting normally. The laptop is an HP Elitebook 2570p. Prior to this installation I was running -CURRENT and using a normal installworld/installkernel procedure. Secondly, I wanted to set up my disc with a 30GB UFS2 / and a 70GB ZFS /home. I used the 'graphical' partition editor rather than the shell, perhaps a mistake, and it didn't work. That is to say, I'd expect it to set up ZFS filesystems on the partitions I'd added with freebsd-zfs type. In the end I just installed the system with / and migrated /home to ZFS later. Finally, I enabled ZFS and created my /home pool. ARC took up most of my free memory (I have 16GB). Later, I was building some ports when I actually ran out of memory. I had no swap configured at that time, so the processes were killed. I set a limit on the ARC size to 2GB and everything is working again. Surely this should be happening on a default ZFS install though? I guess I'm just a magnet for issues! --sym