Call for Testing: 12.0-CURRENT amd64 memstick installer boot-testing

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Glen Barber

2018-05-30 15:50:39 UTC

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

Alan Somers

2018-06-01 01:32:36 UTC

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Post by Glen Barber
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.
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.

Philip Homburg

2018-06-01 08:07:22 UTC

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Post by Glen Barber
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.

Tomoaki AOKI

2018-06-01 13:36:21 UTC

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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

Post by Glen Barber
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.
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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Tomoaki AOKI <***@dec.sakura.ne.jp>

Albert

2018-06-03 05:23:06 UTC

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Hi,

I successfully tested the memstick.img on:
Acer Chromebook 14 (EDGAR) [CB3-431-C5EX]

The Results:
UEFI (Coreboot) works perfectly, no issues there.
BIOS (SeaBIOS) does *NOT* work. It puts the machine into a bootloop
until the install medium is disconnected. It does, however, make it past
the FreeBSD boot loader on the first try.

Idwer Vollering

2018-06-03 10:30:10 UTC

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Post by Albert
Hi,
Acer Chromebook 14 (EDGAR) [CB3-431-C5EX]
UEFI (Coreboot) works perfectly, no issues there.
BIOS (SeaBIOS) does *NOT* work. It puts the machine into a bootloop until
the install medium is disconnected. It does, however, make it past the
FreeBSD boot loader on the first try.

That's odd, which version of SeaBIOS are you using? did you had to run
'gpart recover <device>'?

CFT report: I'm able to boot
FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img using
coreboot with SeaBIOS 1.11.1 just fine.

Post by Albert
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Albert Gem

2018-06-03 14:31:15 UTC

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SeaBIOS 1.10.2

Upgrading seems to do the trick

Post by Idwer Vollering

That's odd, which version of SeaBIOS are you using? did you had to run
'gpart recover <device>'?
CFT report: I'm able to boot
FreeBSD-12.0-CURRENT-amd64-20180529-r334337-mini-memstick.img using
coreboot with SeaBIOS 1.11.1 just fine.

Post by Albert
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https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current

Hans Ottevanger

2018-06-03 10:02:27 UTC

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Post by Glen Barber
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.
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

Ian FREISLICH

2018-06-04 19:34:51 UTC

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Post by Glen Barber
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.
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

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Maurizio Vairani

2018-06-06 07:37:33 UTC

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Hi,
successfully tested the memstick.img on:

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

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Maurizio