Installer of 20210225 snapshot works with monochrome mode
Yasuhiro Kimura
yasu at utahime.org
Wed Mar 3 21:17:30 UTC 2021
From: Yasuhiro Kimura <yasu at utahime.org>
Subject: Re: Installer of 20210225 snapshot works with monochrome mode
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2021 00:43:24 +0900 (JST)
>> I created VirtualBox VM on Windows host and tried to make clean
>> install of 14-CURRENT with iso image of 20210225 snapshot
>> (FreeBSD-14.0-CURRENT-amd64-20210225-bf667f282a7-256946-disc1.iso). Then
>> installer worked with monochrome mode as following.
>>
>> https://www.utahime.org/FreeBSD/install-snapshot-020210225.01.png
>> https://www.utahime.org/FreeBSD/install-snapshot-020210225.02.png
>> https://www.utahime.org/FreeBSD/install-snapshot-020210225.03.png
>>
>> If I start `bsdinstall` after installation is completed, then it works
>> normal color mode. So it seems bug of install image.
>
> I tried 20210218 snapshot and the problem didn't happen. So I'm now
> bisecting and will report which commit causes it.
According to the result of bisecting, following commit is the cause of
the problem.
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commit 77e1ccbee3ed6c837929e4e232fd07f95bfc8294
Author: Rick Parrish <unitrunker at gmail.com>
AuthorDate: Sun Feb 7 07:15:21 2021 +0100
Commit: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: Tue Feb 23 11:16:53 2021 +0100
rc: implement parallel boot
take advantage of the rcorder -p argument to implement parallel
booting in rc.
According to the author non scientific tests:
on a Core 2 Duo with spinning disk:
| Services enabled | before | after | saving |
| 0 | 8s | 8s | 0 |
| 1 | 13s | 13s | 0 |
| 2 | 17s | 13s | 5 |
| 3 | 23s | 13s | 10 |
| 4 | 28s | 13s | 15 |
| 5 | 33s | 13s | 20 |
PR: 249192
MFC after: 3 weeks
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When I saw it I remembered some fixes related to it were committed. So
I tried release build with aff9b9ee89 of main and tested created iso
image. But the problem still happens.
I submitted the problem to Bugzilla as following bug report.
Bug 253997 - Installer of 20210225 snapshot works with monochrome mode
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253997
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Yasuhiro Kimura
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