ALPHA3 niggles

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net
Tue Aug 28 13:52:20 UTC 2018


> Hi,
> 
> Just a couple of small observations with 12.0-ALPHA3 from testing on a
> Raspberry-Pi 3:
> 
> *??? The boot loader (I presume the new LUA based one) is sending escape
> sequences to the screen to format up a boot menu. The screen doesn't
> recognise them and shows a series of ^[ style sequences instead.
> 
> *??? The timeout countdown of the boot loader has reverted to very slow.
> The loader did this earlier in the year on -CURRENT but had obviously
> been fixed for a few months now. Maybe some change needs to be adapted
> from the old to the new loader.
> 
> *??? The root user on the image doesn't have a .login file.

Confirmed on an amd64 install, adding brd@ to cc list, this
is an issue for him.


> I realise these are all cosmetic issues in the overall scheme of things
> but if anyone is working on a bit of spit-and-polish for the new release
> they might want to have a look at a few of these.
> 
> Otherwise I'm happy to say that I haven't found any significant problems
> yet. I'll keep looking though.
> 
> Keep up the good work,
> 
> Brian
> 
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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