From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 14:12:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CC616A41C; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:12:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leimy2k@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E19A43D46; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:12:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from leimy2k@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout11/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j6IECfVk012392; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:12:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (dsl231-059-251.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.59.251]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id j6IECeuM026915; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:12:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <42D859BE.6060100@freebsd.org> References: <42D859BE.6060100@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v733) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: David Leimbach Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 07:12:14 -0700 To: Peter Grehan X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.733) Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD/ppc 6.0-BETA1 isos X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 14:12:42 -0000 The last 6.0 ISO I tried would panic if I tried to disable syscons. As such, I have to plug a USB keyboard into my latop and also do the "skipslot" thingy to get it recognized instead of my bluetooth. Does this one have any improvement in any of the above areas? :) Dave On Jul 15, 2005, at 5:50 PM, Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi all, > > Not sure if y'all saw the announcement on the freebsd-hackers list: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?42D79676.6040606 > > Unfortunately, there are a couple of regressions in the BETA1 > install iso from the last iso I put up, so I'd recommend giving > this one a miss and waiting for the next beta build, unless you > want to upgrade and are prepared for some of the annoyances. They are: > > - Filesystem info isn't written out correctly to /etc/fstab. The > kernel will drop into the mountroot> prompt since the loader can't > find the root filesystem. > > workaround: manually specify the root filesystem at the > mountroot> prompt, and then edit /etc/fstab once the system has > booted. > > - The ttys file should have the ttya/ttyb entries removed. There > will be console message printed complaining that they can't be opened. > > workaround: manually edit /etc/ttys to remove said lines. > > - The OpenFirmware syscons code spits out some kernel printfs when > going to multi-user > > "ofwfb_ioctl: uimplemented" > > workaround: none, these can be ignored. > > - sysinstall prints the GEM ethernet as > > workaround: none, can be ignored. > > > These will be fixed in the next beta release. > > later, > > Peter. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ppc-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >