So... Two show-stoppers, one Security Advisory, and one "Gee. Did we
really implement that new interface that way? That needs a bit more
work." later...
FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 is now available, the first of the Release Candidates.
There will be at least one more Release Candidate before the release so
the release itself is likely around 3 weeks from now IF no new
show-stoppers are uncovered during testing.
In addition to general testing we're looking for information about
potential problems with the boot loader. There has been traffic here
about problems but the reports haven't helped narrow down the causes
yet. So far it seems to be related to USB keyboards and at least so far
systems with more than one processor in them. More data points like
cases where a USB keyboard was not involved as well as if possible
things like which motherboard it is might help us narrow down the cause.
Testing on a variety of motherboards, of varying ages and manufacturers
would help.
And a late arrival that's not possible to test without the packages,
sysinstall's issues with excessive disc swapping when installing large
sets of packages off the CDROMs should be fixed. Given the package
layout it should ask for a disc no more than once. Testing to make sure
that's working would be appreciated.
NOTE: If updating from a 7.0 or earlier system due to a change in the
Vendor's drivers certain Intel NICs will now come up as igb(4) instead
of em(4). We normally try to avoid changes like that in stable branches
but the vendor felt it necessary in order to support the new adapters.
See the UPDATING entry dated 20080811 for details. There are only 3 PCI
ID's that should have their name changed from em(4) to igb(4): 0x10A7,
0x10A9, and 0x10D6. You should be able to determine if your card will
change names by running the command "pciconf -l", and for the line
representing your NIC (should be named em on older systems, e.g. em0 or
em1, etc) check the fourth column. If it says "chip=0x10a7" (or one
of
the other two IDs given above) you will have the adapter's name change.
The ISO images and FTP install trees are available on the FreeBSD Mirror
sites. Using the primary site as an example:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/${arch}/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/
where ${arch} is one of amd64, i386, ia64, pc98, powerpc, or sparc64.
The ISOs for amd64, i386, and sparc64 include what is expected to be the
final package set. For all architectures the ISOs with "disc" in
their
names are CDROM-sized, if you intend to install a variety of packages
during installation you will need all three. For amd64 and i386 there
is a gzip-ed iso with "dvd" in its name which is DVD-sized. It
contains
everything (install bits, livefs, docs, and packages) and can be used if
your machine has a DVD drive in it.
If you would like to do a source-based update to 7.1-RC1 from an already
installed machine you can update your tree to RELENG_7_1 using normal
cvsup/csup methods. Note that due to an unfortunate side-effect of the
"real" source code repository now being in SVN it will look like all
files have a new version so mergemaster may be a bit tedious.
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64
systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 7.0-RELEASE,
7.1-BETA, or 7.1-BETA2 can upgrade as follows:
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RC1
During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging
some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed
merging was done correctly.
# freebsd-update install
The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.
# shutdown -r now
After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new
userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted again:
# freebsd-update install
# shutdown -r now
Users of Intel network interfaces which are changing their name from
"em" to
"igb" should make necessary changes to configuration files BEFORE
running
freebsd-update, since otherwise the network interface will not be configured
appropriately after rebooting for the first time.
Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 6.x) can also use freebsd-update to
upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1, but will be prompted to rebuild all third-party
applications (e.g., anything installed from the ports tree) after the second
invocation of "freebsd-update install", in order to handle differences
in the
system libraries between FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x.
--
Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu
there, funny things are everywhere. |
- Theodore Geisel |
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Sigh. Sorry, did it again... Note the checksum for the dvd1 images is
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Checksums:
MD5 (7.1-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso) = de6338599df1be6915dd01001c1ef4e5
MD5 (7.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso) = 116d0dbff53871778fb0e1e90ce4f2a6
MD5 (7.1-RC1-amd64-disc2.iso) = 2fb908291c90330b665098bb785d0746
MD5 (7.1-RC1-amd64-disc3.iso) = 1aecb94dbdc8cce4e1d793d308d32364
MD5 (7.1-RC1-amd64-docs.iso) = 440b5eb826a710d5e07f579d31142551
MD5 (7.1-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso) = 205147c332524d49521f3b98c8b1b73b
MD5 (7.1-RC1-amd64-livefs.iso) = 1972008c2b34eb3e51074ebd61a4a454
MD5 (7.1-RC1-i386-bootonly.iso) = e12d84609a00bdc6f996e77eff77226a
MD5 (7.1-RC1-i386-disc1.iso) = 8743fff3a445d99b36772ff9984f7cae
MD5 (7.1-RC1-i386-disc2.iso) = 4dabd0b245e42c2eb88a89ac4e132bad
MD5 (7.1-RC1-i386-disc3.iso) = 63860e393c8001015c38cceb263b9ac7
MD5 (7.1-RC1-i386-docs.iso) = 57bfd48213da28789af84ea10301895a
MD5 (7.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso) = e5acb528569ca5cc7fbc5d41fc2ae636
MD5 (7.1-RC1-i386-livefs.iso) = b261a6d73a491d188ac2dd1f913a86ef
MD5 (7.1-RC1-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 07dfef578edb3aab31c2389c7f2d2bbe
MD5 (7.1-RC1-ia64-disc1.iso) = 332009d292433d9232c0e4c906ee69c7
MD5 (7.1-RC1-ia64-disc2.iso) = f217c565ee264d883de71ccc3c94f91a
MD5 (7.1-RC1-ia64-disc3.iso) = 15b8393ea09706ee7715bfdd62f11071
MD5 (7.1-RC1-ia64-docs.iso) = 16d95be27399605a487b1c1b61b02be5
MD5 (7.1-RC1-ia64-livefs.iso) = 15069a0e7142791a35fc25b64bf1d16c
MD5 (7.1-RC1-pc98-bootonly.iso) = be89ea6f9010c86839815ebb6d5d29df
MD5 (7.1-RC1-pc98-disc1.iso) = ff94a112a96cc5c7f1f9ca8039106a7d
MD5 (7.1-RC1-pc98-livefs.iso) = 2cc908c7f9449256eb807782229f7288
MD5 (7.1-RC1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) = e87dcd0649e66743ee54a461669f3401
MD5 (7.1-RC1-powerpc-disc1.iso) = 5109252f3fa6b42458c1a01692b37833
MD5 (7.1-RC1-powerpc-disc2.iso) = 9870248b2ebce575e675541ade94f4eb
MD5 (7.1-RC1-powerpc-disc3.iso) = 42b5a3c0228860d161679fd8c54c2266
MD5 (7.1-RC1-powerpc-docs.iso) = 81272f56de121e9491f3aeb48f7eb2cc
MD5 (7.1-RC1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = d65c6d0120e17661b50593cf1cea35a0
MD5 (7.1-RC1-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 47990a92b36bfcbb8fc10e8fa33ea16a
MD5 (7.1-RC1-sparc64-disc2.iso) = a5debb7feab8e21870f46ea0dc689e1a
MD5 (7.1-RC1-sparc64-disc3.iso) = b3c1e1b3aa26c71b91c68e89c57661d8
MD5 (7.1-RC1-sparc64-docs.iso) = 01d2184ae88c1a94403ee63de7333f18
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-amd64-bootonly.iso) =
be7d99f1f29c56ea107eb41feb78683359379a82d6ce80dbcd0fc3126f5b7ec4
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso) =
3be67ca088868059df0790251e0484ec67f617fdd04a382e91ca0bae239c9d87
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-amd64-disc2.iso) =
91ba01dade4d37245ff5a5ff23d4a9b62d99e41decd1958389d078e3b400309e
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-amd64-disc3.iso) =
301e34f1ff84acdf568abd7a298eb16d9d41e7362d6814137ad888c046930b7e
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-amd64-docs.iso) =
f783cefa13144062d14db44ddb44969a571f1b298930a8a544c7ac5e50e12cc3
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-amd64-dvd1.iso) =
971b8a21b53eaf583a4bb02c63a5eaba73dc29eaa638d5712805ffc933eb643e
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-amd64-livefs.iso) =
b81e4b42fa8e908eb9d75708daae4cb8b92e373e1e58fea306502920b7b52b33
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-i386-bootonly.iso) =
b40e292d89c3e7167524bc9a9db54375188160e7e5855530471e8b2454727c11
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-i386-disc1.iso) =
13b88f219569748b5f760e190948e87a0febc3824278909d96db4173d6858820
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-i386-disc2.iso) =
be7d09d59f921f121b3bb31e6d642f7b9a17a79bd15e2c4ae0f2c25ba041cbba
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-i386-disc3.iso) =
70c2fe469b0d99e73e711d11542bf303a3d8193eae22c35e7187c79aa22d1a41
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-i386-docs.iso) =
64b96484e324d8cfec79c894f259dc3f1dfeb55f87ecd59c1c6049b59e8cfbc9
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso) =
5a265d19a6d8ed410e0e91d53cbf358bfa7b7e7e168cd6332a21dcdfddd0d37d
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-i386-livefs.iso) =
ba8be5619e0de22a5c69d5f8e245e7547cf5e3b1a5a6047ecdc71a5d3444ee4b
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-ia64-bootonly.iso) =
413a31029e32c64cc137cb3e2c6dfddac10779bef17e2de0f7ed3a02cc2dff9a
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-ia64-disc1.iso) =
2f5fe288fcb5312347c89e147a78a634d906b575104692a28b016b7514f5b541
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-ia64-disc2.iso) =
282fc15c7c2b594eff5041d5bd75337218f64ef41f1d97e991a2bc8c125a8e7c
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-ia64-disc3.iso) =
d4eada87243a20c7d2645096442e85e11717977bfff6f30d98766a09f31c66c1
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-ia64-docs.iso) =
b5ec27943a48588c12678c8653553e5eff1d0a382ccc26ce1aa0b642310eee2d
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-ia64-livefs.iso) =
33dfe5eada1d01bf8ed7c3093561eb5d92d4bed6a2dd2c5c69c50abe4db1523c
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-pc98-bootonly.iso) =
f5aa07453a9a4444b84e26949d70bb5b2982778724afbd74553678e2142e2950
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-pc98-disc1.iso) =
24cf624b2edc719452da4ddfcf961dfb40bbc8964321ee10c7d3af1715ec6f74
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-pc98-livefs.iso) =
ffd6d1065f3d991b0676a18e8ff4b2c69647e69eda9c980510a25415bf65fcab
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-powerpc-bootonly.iso) =
779110e8d426f5847fc2a89e273641933cdb2c1b535a8f8cb5b7d94bbe62b6d0
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-powerpc-disc1.iso) =
5cab6aa5bb22e25fc30ebd4909de2df005cc070f5338175446d721ef0fac662f
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-powerpc-disc2.iso) =
487722bef61d3bfd1bf9d507b1cd98f5e7a22a0629ce3f6548e5394f3831189b
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-powerpc-disc3.iso) =
07eb57953c2f62e32320af835fbc27809c33ab1b9d07adeb90f4e94f89265815
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-powerpc-docs.iso) =
fbe50671e2c49f83cd9aace1d008daed19a2a022536a27ffabb1b4d426cda633
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-sparc64-bootonly.iso) =
12d65300c950b6661d16715cdad902acafc5cf892731655082a2190707195225
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-sparc64-disc1.iso) =
bc54c89619c3e99d57c94dc244fdc0fe71d57093bcf12041abe5bf8c9e6d63d2
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-sparc64-disc2.iso) =
1242751d9c0a2f82923904f09fca0f4a63041f3d68e3287963f1f48d81013ff2
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-sparc64-disc3.iso) =
216db6bf1123de281affa6d2ce1cea13f63fbe41bee0f825bc51d13b01411dcc
SHA256 (7.1-RC1-sparc64-docs.iso) =
c7a904e4897e8f5c16fbb2f66dd6e59c5436658f55c24648e5f3fb11e5986c8e
--
Ken Smith
- From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu
there, funny things are everywhere. |
- Theodore Geisel |
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Hi, | By Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> | [ 2008-12-10 04:40 +0200 ]> In addition to general testing we're looking for information about > potential problems with the boot loader. There has been traffic here > about problems but the reports haven't helped narrow down the causes > yet. So far it seems to be related to USB keyboards and at least so far > systems with more than one processor in them. More data points like > cases where a USB keyboard was not involved as well as if possible > things like which motherboard it is might help us narrow down the cause. > Testing on a variety of motherboards, of varying ages and manufacturers > would help.I have been experiencing problems with loader(8) on my system. Essentially it freezes the system if "too much" keyboard input is given. Please see these posts for more background: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046176.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/046189.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-November/046337.html I've just tested booting up with an i386 RC1 disc and the problem is still there. My motherboard is an Intel DG33BU. Regards, Aragon
Am Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:39:26 -0500 schrieb Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU>:> FreeBSD 7.1-RC1 is now available, the first of the Release Candidates. > There will be at least one more Release Candidate before the release > so the release itself is likely around 3 weeks from now IF no new > show-stoppers are uncovered during testing.Hi, I have just tried to use the RC1-livefs-CD (i386). It seems, I cannot boot it. I tried 3 different CD-R(W)s and three different drives (even one SCSI drive!). -- Martin
Le Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:39:26 -0500, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> a ?crit : Hello,> So... Two show-stoppers, one Security Advisory, and one "Gee. Did we > really implement that new interface that way? That needs a bit more > work." later...Can we know what were these two show-stoppers? In the past there were some informations about show stoppers on the FreeBSD's web site but i can't find them. I'm asking because i run 7.1 since the -PRERELEASE and it looks solid as a rock. Thank you all for this new release. Regards.