Call for Testing: 12.0-CURRENT amd64 memstick installer boot-testing wanted

[Ian FREISLICH]

On 05/30/2018 11:50 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
> memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
> install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
> tweaked.
>
> The most recent images are available at:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
>
> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
> would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
> change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
> recently.
>
> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).

Coincidentally, I was trying to install these on a very old 10" Dell 
Lattitude with an Atom N550 CPU.  Both images booted to the beastie menu 
but hung loading the kernel.  The only way I could get it to boot was to 
manually load the kernel at the loader prompt and boot. I was also 
unsuccessful performing a network install due to what I think was the 
download filesystem being read only.  I was able to install from the 
bundled distribution.

Ian

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