From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 20 02:39:02 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D8C416A417 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:39:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36B0E13C465 for ; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:39:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) id l7K2cpPe049888; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:38:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:38:51 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Erik Norgaard Message-ID: <20070820023851.GA46690@dan.emsphone.com> References: <46C83C2F.3060105@fpt.vn> <499c70c0708191026w27738f52i8a257b50e7c3ef39@mail.gmail.com> <46C89EA8.2090709@locolomo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46C89EA8.2090709@locolomo.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: vuthecuong , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd 7 release date :) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:39:02 -0000 In the last episode (Aug 19), Erik Norgaard said: > Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: >> Hello, On 8/19/07, vuthecuong wrote: >>> just for reference only: Original release planned date of 7.0 was >>> end of Jul. But now is nearly end of Aug. So Which date you guess >>> 7.0 will be released? :D >> >> FreeBSD 7.0 entered frozen status, and it has been very stable with >> no major bugs, you could use it safely, and enjoy the real BSD speed >> with FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT now ;) > > No so fast now, after reading this I thought I'd give it a try, > updated the source, buildworld then buildkernel. at installkernel i > got a lot of error lines like this > > kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked > kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked > kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked > kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked > > no idea which file it was. And booting I booted straight into gdb. (ddb I assume, not gdb?) Those are warnings, not errors, due to the installkernel running a 6.x kldxref on a 7.x kernel. Your boot problem is unrelated, and could be due to missing drivers for whatever your boot device is. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com