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

[Dave M.]

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

I did boot with CSM/BIOS/legacy mode on,

Manufacturer: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC, Product Name:
K30AD_M31AD_M51AD_M32AD, BIOS information :


Vendor: American Megatrends Inc. Version: 0601
Release Date: 06/09/2014

BIOS Revision: 4.6

Machine class:  amd64
CPU Model:      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4460  CPU @ 3.20GHz

and that went well, also went into the shell with a gpart show, again all good!

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Dave M.