From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 10:34:07 2011 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 26506106566B for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:34:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@scottsonline.org.uk) Received: from woodbine.london.02.net (woodbine.london.02.net [87.194.255.145]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AFB8FC08 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:34:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from scottsonline.org.uk (78.105.254.41) by woodbine.london.02.net (8.5.133) id 4D4A0A04015477C7 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:34:05 +0000 Received: from [192.168.0.2] (picard.scotts [192.168.0.2]) by scottsonline.org.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p2FAY4Ug042794 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:34:04 GMT (envelope-from mike@scottsonline.org.uk) Message-ID: <4D7F409C.1080303@scottsonline.org.uk> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:34:04 +0000 From: Mike Scott User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <4D7DE88C.9070405@scottsonline.org.uk> <4D7F374F.3060404@scottsonline.org.uk> <20110315211319.A36648@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20110315211319.A36648@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (scottsonline.org.uk [192.168.0.1]); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:34:04 +0000 (GMT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 192.168.0.1 Subject: Re: problems booting 8.x kernel 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: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:34:07 -0000 On 15/03/11 10:17, Ian Smith wrote: > On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Mike Scott wrote: > > > I think I'll have to give up because I'm out of ideas, settle for a linux > > kernel on this particular target h/w, and just hope this issue doesn't > > affect another machine I have which is due for imminent upgrade from 6.2 to > > 8.x. > > Does it boot ok on 7.4? Might that be suitable for this box's purpose? Don't know about booting. I'm looking at multiple installations, which confuses me as much as anyone :-) The small server currently running 6.2 I need^W want to get up to 8.x for the userland camera support. The desktop I've mostly been referring to previously is a testbed before I consider buying new hardware - I want to get a system installed, write some software and get it all running before committing to significant (at least for me!) expense. The problem being that I see some advantage in trying debian kfreebsd (I need alsaplayer, and assume this would be available) - which uses an 8.1 kernel and is where all this started because it wouldn't boot! If pushed, I'd probably drop back to straight debian/linux, but I'd rather stick with something I know a little about; besides I happen to like freebsd :-) Does that make some sort of sense?? -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England