experience with 9.2-PRERELEASE

[Glen Barber]

Hi John,

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 05:45:29PM -0700, John Reynolds wrote:
> 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.........
> 

Do you have a SATA drive you can try with this hardware?  It would be
useful to know if that works, or same errors, etc.

Glen

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