misc/140066: install report for 8.0 RC 2

[Charles Hedrick]

>Number:         140066
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       install report for 8.0 RC 2
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 29 02:00:11 UTC 2009
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>Originator:     Charles Hedrick
>Release:        8.0 RC 2
>Organization:
Rutgers University
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>Description:
I installed 8.0 RC 2 this evening. I had a number of problems, which I thought you would want to know about. The system is HP L2000 laptop. This is a few years old. It's a Turion 64 processor, 1 GB, ATI mbility 200.

The major devices work except for the Broadcom 430x wireless. Actually the reason I tried 8.0 is that it has the bwi support.

Sysinstall crashed sometime after creating users when I hit "OK"

The system crashes a lot. No obvious cause. One time I was in a shell in gnome with nothing else going on and "who" crashed it. No error messages. It instantly reboots.

I can't get the bwi driver installed. I added if_bwi_enable="YES". There's no sign in dmesg that it had any effect, and ifconfig -a doesn't show bwi. I didn't install the firmware package an instructed in "man bwi." (I think this is a bad idea, by the way. You shouldn't need to use the network to get what you need to make a network interface work. It's the primary network on that machine.)

The crashing and lack of bwi make it pretty much unusable on this system.

I installed it on a Windows 7 system. Windows 7 no longer boots. It can't find boot mgr. The configuration is a small (100 MB) recovery partition, Windows 7, and Freebsd.

Minor things you may or may not want to deal with:

If the Freebsd DVD is installed there's no obviosu way to boot from disk. I recommend having the CD boot screen include a "boot from disk" option.

During kernel startup, it prints a warning that partition 1, 2, 3 do not start on a track boundary. Your partitioner set them up, in automatic mode. If you want to start on a track boundary you should do so.


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