experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

[John Reynolds]

Hello all, I have some feedback for the recently prepared snapshot of 
9.2-RELEASE.

I've been trying like crazy to get the 9x series code installed on a 
brand new workstation I'm building. It consists of a brand new ASRock 
motherboard and haswell i7-4770k processor, Z87 chipset. I tried at 
first to install 9.1-RELEASE. it worked (after I learned a bit about the 
new installer--I have used FreeBSD "forever" but have been "out of it" 
in terms of this list and other going's on for about a year due to 
workload), but upon booting I was getting "timeout" errors

ahcich0: Timeout on slot xx port 0
ahcich0: is 000000000 cs 00000000 ss e0000000 rs e0000000 tfd 40 serr 
00000000 cmd 0004df17

to the SSD that I used as the primary hard drive. So, then I figured I 
would try a more recent snapshot hoping that something had been spotted 
and fixed already. I got the 9.2-PRERELEASE amd64 snapshot and tried to 
install it. However, I couldn't even get past the first screen of the 
install because of these messages:

ugen0.2: (Unknown) at usbus0 (disconnected)
uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device

and the keyboard was non-functional. It just sat there spewing these 
errors about 1 per second.

So, even though I'm having some sort of ahci "timeout" issue with this 
hardware and 9.1-RELEASE, it certainly appears that something has 
zig-zagged in the usb stack in this 9.2-PRELEASE snapshot because I 
can't even get through the install program. :(. Same hardware, same 
everything.

I also tried the 9.2-PRELEASE i386 snapshot for giggles. Same result.

The final blow to my sanity was when I rolled back and tried to install 
8.4-RELEASE and sysinstall couldn't make the disk devices after I hit 
'W' in the disk label editor to commit my changes. So, I'm wondering 
generically are people having problems with SSD's in FreeBSD? In this 
hardware I have not tried using a traditional SATA disk yet.

But just thought I would report that 9.2-PRERELEASE can't even get 
through install on this H/W where 9.1 could.........

-Jr