From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 26 17:11:20 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E58A7106564A for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:11:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danallen46@airwired.net) Received: from mail.utahbroadband.com (mail.utahbroadband.com [204.14.20.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD68F8FC28 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:11:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 9939 invoked by uid 89); 26 Aug 2009 15:33:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.18?) (danallen46@airwired.net@66.29.174.6) by mail.utahbroadband.com with ESMTPA; 26 Aug 2009 15:33:46 -0000 Message-Id: <3116B23F-D534-46F5-A808-EF9D7232B8C5@airwired.net> From: Dan Allen To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:44:37 -0600 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:16:04 +0000 Subject: 8.0-BETA 3 has problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:11:21 -0000 I just downloaded the 8.0 Beta 3 CD, the regular Intel version. I tried to install it on my Mac using the Q/Qemu emulator. All previous versions of FreeBSD since 6.0 and later have worked just fine on this emulator. FreeBSD 7.2 installs and works fine on it, for example. FreeBSD 8.0 Beta 3 dies in the install. The resulting installation does not boot and cannot find a kernel. I do not know anything more than what I have said, and yes, I know that this is not very helpful. I did a standard install, answered the questions, said "yes I really want to do all of this", the install began, and the next thing I know everything was toasted - the emulator had shut down the process. When I try and boot it up from the resulting hard disk image, it cannot find a kernel. Is this really Beta software? It feels incredibly fragile compared to previous releases of BSD. I found major problems with 8.0 Beta 2 on a Dell laptop a few weeks ago as well. I think 8.0 should be held up and not shipped like this. It will give FreeBSD a bad image. Just one guy's opinion... (who has shipped a lot of software at Apple and at Microsoft in years past...) Dan Allen Independent SW Developer