Haswel / i915 experimental test result

[Arto Pekkanen]

One more thing ...

IF your system uses GRUB as boot manager and IF you can provide me a copy of the GRUB config file, then I could probably try to figure out the system bootup procedure from it. Just by looking at the GRUB configuration you can see if GRUB directly loads the kernel or if it chainloads specific block or blocks in a partition. This information would help me to figure out what component of the bootstrap procedure makes the decision to load which kernel image file.

On 24.11.2015 0:15, Arto Pekkanen wrote:
> Do you have the directory /boot/kernel.i915 with the experimental kernel files in it? That directory must exist before /boot/loader can boot the experimental kernel from it.
> 
> If you do
> # nextboot -k kernel.i915
> # reboot
> 
> as root, then /boot/loader should boot kernel from /boot/kernel.i915/kernel -file after next reboot.
> 
> The "nextboot -k <kernel>" -command simply writes a "hint file" in /boot -directory, which overrides the default kernel path for /boot/loader.
> 
> If these instructions do not help, then problem is that I just have no idea how a PC-BSD system has been set up. I don't use PC-BSD or even ZFS myself. I only use base FreeBSD 10.2 with UEFI (which does not require installation of any stage0 and/or stage1 bootcode, only a 900k partition with specific type GUID and the file /boot/boot1.efifat written as partition contents with dd) or a standard gpt setup (with /boot/pmbr as stage0 and /boot/gptboot as stage1).
> 
> I've heard PC-BSD uses GRUB in some way. Is it possible that GRUB loads the /boot/kernel directly? If it does, then it does NOT care about the nextboot hint file at all, unlike /boot/loader. IF (and only IF) GRUB loads the system kernel image directly from boot partition (emphasis on _directly_), then you need to somehow configure GRUB to offer a boot menu item for the specific kernel. Unfortunately I cannot remember how GRUB is configured since it been a decade since I last time had to bother configuring GRUB. 
> 
> You could also ask in PC-BSD forums something like "how do I boot a custom kernel built in /boot/<kernel_name>" ...
> 
> On 23.11.2015 15:36, Isaac Raway wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've followed the directions on this page to install the experimental
>> i915 kernel:
>>
>> https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20to%20Linux%203.8
>>
>> I'm not sure that I booted into it correctly (pretty green with BSD in
>> general, and only some experience with kernel builds on Linux). I have a
>> Dell Latitude E7240 with a Haswell chip. Running PC-BSD 10.2 if that
>> matters. I'm uncertain about if the boot did what I think it did because
>> the uname output still say's it's a -RELEASE build:
>>
>> # uname -a
>> FreeBSD sebastian 10.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Aug 18
>> 15:15:36 UTC 2015    
>> root at amd64-builder.pcbsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>>
>> The driver doesn't seem to load, using PC-BSD's Display wizard it
>> reports a failure then restarts the wizard when I try to start X using
>> the intel driver.
>>
>> I've attached the dmesg output as requested on the above page. Let me
>> know if anything else would be useful.
>>
>> IJR
>>
>>
>>
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