Hello, and happy New Year to all! I'm hoping to update all our servers to 7 in the near future. As such, I'm experimenting with it on one of our less prominent production servers. My procedure for it's installation and usage: download 7-CURRENT disk1 iso (B4) from nearest freebsd mirror install choice - minimum + src make config options, reboot download cvsup-no-gui pkg cvsup ports + src (above procedures performed 2007-12-30) (above procedures again performed on 2007-12-31) In every case, I wiped the hard drive, performing a fresh install. After initial install. Sending a halt, in order to reboot the system results in garbled messages to the console. Specifically, the Syncing disks... message is unintelligible. As does is line preceding it. Also. After syncing the source, I altered/renamed GENERIC and performed build/world/kernel, and install/kernel/world. During the buildworld process I recieved more warnings than I can recall seeing in previous versions <= 6. ee (aee) resulted in "Illegal instruction... core dumped" after the build/install process. FWIW this is on an i386 2 proc MB. Given the many changes in 7, I spent more time reading the doc's and errata than I have spent in previous versions. Thank you for all your time and attention to this matter. -- panic: kernel trap (ignored)
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:09:02PM -0800, Chris H. wrote:> After initial install. Sending a halt, in order to reboot the system > results in garbled messages to the console. Specifically, the > Syncing disks... message is unintelligible. As does is line > preceding it.Does "garbled" mean it looks like there's two separate printf()s occuring at the same time, with characters interleaved? If so: http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/common_issues.txt Also, your Email address has a hash symbol in it, so I hope this mail makes it through to you... -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
Chris H. wrote:> Hello, and happy New Year to all! > > I'm hoping to update all our servers to 7 in the near future. > As such, I'm experimenting with it on one of our less prominent > production servers. > My procedure for it's installation and usage: > > download 7-CURRENT disk1 iso (B4) from nearest freebsd mirror > install choice - minimum + src > make config options, reboot > download cvsup-no-gui pkg > cvsup ports + src > (above procedures performed 2007-12-30) > (above procedures again performed on 2007-12-31) > In every case, I wiped the hard drive, performing a fresh install. > > After initial install. Sending a halt, in order to reboot the system > results in garbled messages to the console. Specifically, the > Syncing disks... message is unintelligible. As does is line > preceding it. > > Also. After syncing the source, I altered/renamed GENERIC and > performed build/world/kernel, and install/kernel/world. > During the buildworld process I recieved more warnings than I > can recall seeing in previous versions <= 6. > ee (aee) resulted in "Illegal instruction... core dumped" after > the build/install process. > > FWIW this is on an i386 2 proc MB. > Given the many changes in 7, I spent more time reading the doc's > and errata than I have spent in previous versions. > > Thank you for all your time and attention to this matter.It is just a sign that 7 is getting higher concurrency than 6 did. The warnings are probably from the new compiler (gcc 4) which as usual is more strict and more verbose. Try building ee with -ggdb and running a backtrace. Kris