8.2-RC3-amd64 install hangs on Dell T110

[Ron McDowell]

If I've come to the wrong list with this, please redirect me.

I have a brand new Dell T110, 2.53ghz Xeon 3440, 8gb [2x4gb] ram, 4x1tb 
Hitachi SAS hd, Apple USB keyboard and mouse [just to cover all the 
hardware]


Booting 8.2-RC3 amd64 disc1 looks good through all the bright-white 
text, but it's hard to read scrolling by that fast :) then shows one 
line of normal-bright text:


/stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0

then hangs, never gets to the blue install screens.

This is new hardware to me, but it loads Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 and OpenBSD 
4.8 amd64 fine, so I'm assuming it's not flaky hardware.


I'd be happy to try any patches or debugging tips, but this is my only 
amd64 box and since I can't yet get FreeBSD onto it, it would have to be 
something I don't have to build.


Thanks.

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Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX

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Re: FYI: 9.0-RELEASE announced...

[Ron McDowell]

On 1/13/12 1:00 PM, Eugene Grosbein wrote:

14.01.2012 01:05, Eugene Grosbein пишет:

13.01.2012 06:54, Ken Smith пишет:


If you downloaded the amd64 and/or i386 DVD images before now you
might want to check the checksums with the ones posted in the
release announcement.  The fix to make sysinstall(8) happy about
installing from the DVD images was the *only* change made to the
updated images.  The "bad" images were never available via
Bittorrent so if you got the images that way you wouldn't have
a bad image.

I've just downloaded FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso using
official torrent tracker linked in original announcement.
I use "transmission" torrent client running under FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE.
MD5 of the resulting image does not match:

MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = b23ef73412bd50ed62ef8613ca1a4199

Sorry for noise, that's right MD5.


I've removed the torrent and downloaded file and tried again,
got the same wrong MD5.

I've tried the image with VirtualBox, virtual machine starts and hangs hard
at "Checksum verification" stage.

It seems, FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE can install as VirtualBox-4.0.10 Guest
using SAS-emulated disk controller only. In IDE or SATA mode it hangs.

Cc'd to Alexander Motin.

Eugene Grosbein



FWIW, 9.0-RELEASE i386 installed fine on Virtualbox 4.1.8 hosted on a 
MacBook Pro:


Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan  3 07:15:25 UTC 2012
r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700  @ 2.53GHz (2445.78-MHz 
686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x1067a  Family = 6  Model = 17  
Stepping = 10
  
Features=0x783fbbf

  Features2=0x209
real memory  = 268369920 (255 MB)
avail memory = 243384320 (232 MB)
pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0:  on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: Sleep Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900
acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
pcib0:  port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci_link2: BIOS IRQ 9 for 0.7.INTA does not match previous BIOS IRQ 10
pci0:  on pcib0
isab0:  at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0:  on isab0
atapci0:  port 
0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xd000-0xd00f at device 1.1 on pci0

ata0:  on atapci0
ata1:  on atapci0
vgapci0:  mem 0xe000-0xe0ff irq 11 at 
device 2.0 on pci0
em0:  port 
0xd010-0xd017 mem 0xf000-0xf001 irq 10 at device 3.0 on pci0

em0: Ethernet address: 08:00:27:48:85:1f
pci0:  at device 4.0 (no driver attached)
pcm0:  port 0xd100-0xd1ff,0xd200-0xd23f irq 5 at 
device 5.0 on pci0

pcm0: 
ohci0:  mem 0xf0804000-0xf0804fff irq 11 
at device 6.0 on pci0

usbus0:  on ohci0
pci0:  at device 7.0 (no driver attached)
ehci0:  mem 
0xf0805000-0xf0805fff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0

usbus1: EHCI version 1.0
usbus1:  on ehci0
battery0:  on acpi0
acpi_acad0:  on acpi0
atkbdc0:  port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0:  irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0:  irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: model IntelliMouse Explorer, device ID 4
attimer0:  port 0x40-0x43,0x50-0x53 on acpi0
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0:  at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0:  at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0
atrtc0:  at port 0x70 irq 8 on isa0
Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
ppc0: parallel port not found.
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
pcm0: measured ac97 link rate at 2807 Hz
usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
usbus1: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
ugen0.1:  at usbus0
uhub0:  on usbus0
ugen1.1:  at usbus1
uhub1:  on usbus1
ada0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
ada0:  ATA-6 device
ada0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, PIO 65536bytes)
ada0: 32768MB (67108864 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C)
ada0: Previously was known as ad0
cd0 at ata0 bus 0 scbus0 target 1 lun 0
cd0:  Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device
cd0: 33.300MB/s transfers (UDMA2, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 65534bytes)
cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2445784083 Hz quality 800
Root mount waiting for: usbus1 usbus0
uhub0: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
Root mount waiting for: usbus1
Root mount waiting for: usbus1
Root mount waiting for: usbus1
uhub1: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0p2 [rw]...

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Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX


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Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

[Ron McDowell]

On 6/1/12 1:57 PM, Thomas David Rivers wrote:

We used to have FreeBSD exclusively on desktops...

Now, we have migrated to other desktops (mac) with FreeBSD running
the build and file server...

Why?

Because - the mac updates itself!  No pain, no installation,
no keeping-up with mailing lists/announcements, just  and its done.

Mac OS has a nice X11 server, the Mac UI is good enough, you don't
have to install/update anything, the "app store" is perfect
for downloading/installing whatever a desktop user might need.

It was just too alluring...

So, FreeBSD runs our NFS file server, and we log into a larger
FreeBSD machine to do builds, etc... but, the desktop has moved.

One developer here uses Linux Debian for about the same reason,
it's trivial to update (via the network) to new versions, etc...

Our web site used to be FreeBSD-based, but it was just too
cost-effective to get a virtual Linux box on the backbone and
move everything to that.  Our requirements aren't too big, so
that works beautifully.   There _are_ people doing virtual
FreeBSD boxes in a similar fashion, but they were quote a lot
more for the annual fee.. so, Linux it was...

I suppose, in some sense, you could argue that MacOS is FreeBSD...

- Dave Rivers -



I feel the same way about OSX for desktops [and my desktop is also my 
notebook with a monitor/keyboard/mouse].


I have been quite happy with rootbsd.com [right there in your area code] 
for VM boxes, have some in Raleigh and in Dallas and they perform well, 
running 8-stable and 9-stable.  I've also used vr.org for FreeBSD boxes 
in Europe and Asia, no problems there either.


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Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX

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Re: [CFT] Need Testers for: sysutils/bsdconfig

[Ron McDowell]

On 6/21/12 5:32 PM, Devin Teske wrote:

Hi everybody,

I've published a new port (sysutils/bsdconfig) so that we can get some testing on the 
replacement for sysinstall's [post-installation] "Configure" menu.

We're on a tight schedule, so if you have the time and/or energy your timely 
efforts will be GREATLY appreciated in helping to get this software tested 
prior to the 9.1-R code freeze.

Please welcome "bsdconfig" (port pkg-descr below):

bsdconfig is a robust utility for configuring/managing various aspects of the
FreeBSD Operating System. Feature-highlights include (but are not limited to):
   - Modular, stable, efficient and i18n-compatible.
   - Easily maintained/extendable sh(1) source/syntax.
   - Works with both dialog(1) in base and Xdialog(1) from ports (x11/xdialog).
   - rc.conf(5) configuration/management based on sysutils/sysrc
   - Timezone configuration based on sysutils/tzdialog
   - Networking management based on sysutils/host-setup

WWW: http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/

Again, thank you very much for testing this new software.
P.S. Due to the large codebase comprising bsdconfig, ample precautions should 
be taken. I've not noticed any negative behavior in months of usage, but just 
be warned.

P.P.S. I don't think on subscribed to -stable@, so include me in your replies.
I'm one of the coauthors of this code, and I am here on -stable.  As 
stated, this port will only run on 9.0-RELEASE and later.


Please give it a try!  Thanks!

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Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX

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