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

[Hans Ottevanger]

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