Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 09:33:43 -0300 From: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> To: Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA 3 has problems Message-ID: <19e9a5dc0908270533r1c000f5dp16201eb8a81079dd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3116B23F-D534-46F5-A808-EF9D7232B8C5@airwired.net> References: <3116B23F-D534-46F5-A808-EF9D7232B8C5@airwired.net>
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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Dan Allen <danallen46@airwired.net> wrote: > 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. Free= BSD > 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 standa= rd > 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 toaste= d - > the emulator had shut down the process. When I try and boot it up from t= he > 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 De= ll > 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 +10 I=B4ve been having the same "it=B4s fragile" feeling (you just hit the nail= in the head with those words) since 7.2 and the stack overflow you can get by simply copying /boot/defaults/loader.conf to /boot/loader.conf , which didn=B4t happen before. Problems with bge (does not resume from suspend in 7.2-REL, 8.0-BETA, 8.0-BETA2, 8.0-BETA3, PR 136876) and lack of wifi support for my harware (BCM4315 - chip=3D0x431514e4), problems with fwohci (PR 136946), with shutd= own (PR: 136008), with ext2fs ( http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-August/204407.htm= l), no display after resume using the vesa driver or getting a crash by simply kldloading atapicam (at least from BETA2 in: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-July/009775.html an= d BETA3: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-August/010937.html)= , and opinions as "I say good riddence, if someone wants thier hardware not t= o melt then each machine should be personally responsible and enroll in a private monitoring service we don't need project sponsored health monitoring." don=B4t do any help ... And that=B4s just to name some of the simple issues .. those more related to desktop usage I guess. Now , with all due respect, I=B4ve bought 7.x all the way and have been following 8.x development since before -BETA got released (snapshots isos) but I don=B4t see me buying a copy of it anytime soon :s Just my view. Best Regards Gonzalo
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