Can't boot after make installworld

[alteriks at gmail.com]

On Monday, 22 of March 2010 22:55:17 Dan Naumov wrote:
> > I've read that FreeBSD kernel supports 3D acceleration in ATI R7xx
> > chipset and as I own motherboard with HD3300 built-in I thought that I
> > would give it a try. I upgraded to see if there is any progress with
> > ¿zfs? I don't really know if it's zfs related, but at certain load, my
> > system crashes, and reboots. It happens only when using bonnie++ to
> > benchmark I/O. And I'm a little bit to lazy to prepare my system for
> > coredumps - I don't have swap slice for crashdumps, because I wanted
> > to simplify adding drives to my raidz1 configuration. Could anyone
> > tell me what's needed, besides having swap to produce good crashdump?
> 
> As of right now, even if you don't care about capability to take crash
> dumps, it is highly recommended to still use traditional swap
> partitions even if your system is otherwise fully ZFS. There are know
> stability problems involving using a ZVOL as a swap device. These
> issues are being worked on, but this is still the situation as of now.
> 
> > At first I didn't knew that I am upgrading to bleeding edge/developer
> > branch of FreeBSD.  I'll come straight out with it,  8.0-STABLE sounds
> > more stable than 8.0-RELEASE-p2, which I was running before upgrade ;)
> > I'm a little confused with FreeBSD release cycle at first I compared
> > it with Debian release cycle,  because I'm most familiar to it, and I
> > used it a lot before using FreeBSD. Debian development is more
> > one-dimensional - unstable/testing/stable/oldstable whereas FreeBSD
> > has two stable branches - 8.0 and 7.2 which are actively developed.
> > But still I am confused with FreeBSD naming and it's relation with
> > tags which are used in standard-supfile. We have something like this:
> > 9.0-CURRENT -> tag=.
> > 8.0-STABLE -> tag=RELENG_8
> > 8.0-RELEASE-p2 ->  tag=RELENG_8_0 ? (btw what does p2 mean?)
> > If someone patient could explain it to me I'd be grateful.
> 
> 9-CURRENT: the real crazyland
> 8-STABLE: a dev branch, from which 8.0 was tagged and eventually 8.1 will
>  be RELENG_8_0: 8.0-RELEASE + latest critical security and reliability
>  updates (8.0 is up to patchset #2, hence -p2)
> 
> Same line of thinking applies to 7-STABLE, 7.3-RELEASE and so on.
> 
> 
> - Sincerely,
> Dan Naumov
> 

Thanks for clarifying. I will try turning swap ASAP.