freebsd stable - Jun 2018 - Call for Testing: 12.0-CURRENT amd64 memstick installer boot-testing wanted

Hi,

Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
tweaked.

The most recent images are available at:
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img

We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
recently.

Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).

Thanks,

Glen

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Hi 

Tested both images in both modes on: 

Supermicro X9SCL-F
E3-1230 CPU 

Work perfectly



Glen Barber wrote:
GB> Hi,
GB> 
GB> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
GB> memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
GB> install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
GB> tweaked.
GB> 
GB> The most recent images are available at:
GB>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
GB>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
GB> 
GB> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
GB> would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
GB> change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
GB> recently.
GB> 
GB> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).
GB> 
GB> Thanks,
GB> 
GB> Glen
GB>

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 9:50 AM, Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
> memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
> install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
> tweaked.
>
> The most recent images are available at:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-
> IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-
> IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
>
> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
> would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
> change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
> recently.
>
> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Glen
>
>
No problems with a System76 Lemur in both UEFI and non-UEFI mode.  It's a
SkyLake-based system.

Hello Glen,

On Wed, 30 May 2018 15:50:39 +0000, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
> memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
> install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
> tweaked.
> 
> The most recent images are available at:
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
> 
> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
> would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
> change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
> recently.
> 
> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).
on Thinkpad T420s mini image boots in both UEFI and Legacy modes, but
UEFI is considerably faster.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Glen
> 

-- 
Best Regards.
Christopher Hall.

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 03:50:39PM +0000, Glen Barber
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
> memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
> install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
> tweaked.
> 
> The most recent images are available at:
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
> 
> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
> would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
> change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
> recently.
> 
> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).
Tested memstick.img in both UEFI and legacy mode on :

Lenovo ThinkPad T430s
MSI Cubi 3 Silent

Both work for me.
> Thanks,
> 
> Glen
	Kevin

>https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD
>-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
Works fine on a Lenovo ThinkPad x201

Fails on a Dell PowerEdge 2950
- The USB stick doen't show up in the boot menu
- After fixing the partition table entries, the USB stick does show up
- And then fails with 'Missing operating system'

Note that after fixing the partition table entries, it still works on the
ThinkPad.

Hi.

Booted as expected on ThinkPad T420.
Fixed with descrete (nvidia) GPU, CPU internal GPU is disabled.
Both UEFI and Legacy (CSM) boot are enabled.

 UEFI first  : Boot on UEFI mode. [Confirmed efifb is used.]
 Legecy first: Boot on CSM mode.  [Confirmed vt(vga) is used.]

UEFI boot is much faster than legacy (CSM) boot.

Is firmware version needed?


On Wed, 30 May 2018 15:50:39 +0000
Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
> memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
> install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
> tweaked.
> 
> The most recent images are available at:
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
> 
> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
> would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
> change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
> recently.
> 
> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Glen
> 

-- 
Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon at dec.sakura.ne.jp>

2018-05-30 17:50 GMT+02:00 Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
> memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
> install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
> tweaked.
>
> The most recent images are available at:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-
> IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-
> IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
>
> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
> would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
> change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
> recently.
>
> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Glen
>
>
Hi,
successfully tested the memstick.img on:

HP Microserver Gen8, BIOS
Samsung NP270E5E laptop, BIOS and UEFI

--
Maurizio

On 05/30/18 17:50, Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
> memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
> install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
> tweaked.
> 
> The most recent images are available at:
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
> 
> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
> would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
> change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
> recently.
> 
> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).
> 
Hi,

I tried to boot the memstick.img on the following two systems (both 
fairly ancient and just having a BIOS):

ASUS N4L-VM DH, CPU T7400 @2.16GHz
Intel  DP965LT, CPU Q6600 @2.40GHz

Both booted perfectly.

With FreeBSD 11.1 the latter system needed a freshly written USB stick 
to be treated with "gpart recover da0 && gpart set -a active
da0" before
it would boot, so this is certainly an improvement.

Kind regards,

Hans Ottevanger

www.beastielabs.net

> Hi,
>
> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to install
12.0-
> CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs tweaked.
>
> The most recent images are available at:
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
>
> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the change that
> had been committed addresses several boot issues reported recently.
>
> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Glen
Went well on Lenovo Thinkpad X250, Fujitsu Celsius W530 and Lenovo ThinkCentre
M710s.

Martin

On 05/30/2018 11:50 AM, Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
> memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
> install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
> tweaked.
>
> The most recent images are available at:
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
>
https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
>
> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
> would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
> change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
> recently.
>
> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).
Coincidentally, I was trying to install these on a very old 10" Dell 
Lattitude with an Atom N550 CPU.? Both images booted to the beastie menu 
but hung loading the kernel.? The only way I could get it to boot was to 
manually load the kernel at the loader prompt and boot. I was also 
unsuccessful performing a network install due to what I think was the 
download filesystem being read only.? I was able to install from the 
bundled distribution.

Ian

--

2018-05-30 17:50 GMT+02:00 Glen Barber <gjb at freebsd.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Could folks please help boot-test the most recent 12.0-CURRENT amd64
> memstick images on various hardware?  Note, this is not a request to
> install 12.0-CURRENT, only a boot-test with various system knobs
> tweaked.
>
> The most recent images are available at:
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-
> IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img
> https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-
> IMAGES/12.0/FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-memstick.img
>
> We are interested in testing both UEFI and CSM/BIOS/legacy mode, as we
> would like to get this included in the upcoming 11.2-RELEASE if the
> change that had been committed addresses several boot issues reported
> recently.
>
> Please help test, and report back (both successes and failures).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Glen
>
>
Hi,
successfully tested the memstick.img on:

Mac mini Mid 2011, BIOS and UEFI
Desktop based on Asus H81M-K mainboard, BIOS and UEFI

--
Maurizio

Hi

Tested both images in both modes on:

Intel? Server Board S1200KP
E3-1230 CPU

BIOS/legacy mode work perfectly

UEFI failed. Not surprising as I have never gotten FreeBSD UEFI to work 
on this motherboard.

Console displayed:
-------------------------
/boot/kernel/kernel....
Booting...
Start...
EFI frame...
addr, size...
dimensions...
stride...
masks...
_

Required power to be cycled
-- 
David Samms