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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:53:01 GMT
From: Charles Hedrick <hedrick@rutgers.edu>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: install report for 8.0 RC 2
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>Number:         140066
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [bwi] install report for 8.0 RC 2 (multiple problems)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-net
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 29 02:00:11 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Tue Nov 03 02:15:08 UTC 2009
>Originator:     Charles Hedrick
>Release:        8.0 RC 2
>Organization:
Rutgers University
>Environment:
>Description:
I installed 8.0 RC 2 this evening. I had a number of problems, which I
thought you would want to know about. The system is HP L2000 laptop.
This is a few years old. It's a Turion 64 processor, 1 GB, ATI mbility 200.

The major devices work except for the Broadcom 430x wireless. Actually
the reason I tried 8.0 is that it has the bwi support.

Sysinstall crashed sometime after creating users when I hit "OK"

The system crashes a lot. No obvious cause. One time I was in a shell
in gnome with nothing else going on and "who" crashed it. No error
messages. It instantly reboots.

I can't get the bwi driver installed. I added if_bwi_enable="YES".
There's no sign in dmesg that it had any effect, and ifconfig -a
doesn't show bwi. I didn't install the firmware package an instructed
in "man bwi." (I think this is a bad idea, by the way. You shouldn't
need to use the network to get what you need to make a network interface
work. It's the primary network on that machine.)

The crashing and lack of bwi make it pretty much unusable on this system.

I installed it on a Windows 7 system. Windows 7 no longer boots. It can't
find boot mgr. The configuration is a small (100 MB) recovery partition,
Windows 7, and FreeBSD.

Minor things you may or may not want to deal with:

If the Freebsd DVD is installed there's no obvious way to boot from
disk. I recommend having the CD boot screen include a "boot from disk"
option.

During kernel startup, it prints a warning that partition 1, 2, 3 do
not start on a track boundary. Your partitioner set them up, in automatic
mode. If you want to start on a track boundary you should do so.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-net 
Responsible-Changed-By: linimon 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Nov 3 02:10:29 UTC 2009 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Reassigning this PR to -net because it contains information about a 
bwi problem. 

To submitter: handling this kind of PR is a bit problematic for us, 
since it lists several different problems.  There really isn't one 
person/group who works on "overall usability issues".  (I'll accept a 
criticism that there *should* be, but FreeBSD is a volunteer project, 
so all I can do is advocate for more people to work on such issues.) 

In the meantime you may be able to find help with certain problems 
in the FreeBSD Forums, or, if you are more traditional, the freebsd- 
questions@ mailing list. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140066 
>Unformatted:
