Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:23:58 +0000 From: symbolics@gmx.com To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 10-BETA3 install test; 3 issues Message-ID: <20131115102358.GA31778@lemon>
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Hi I usually run -CURRENT but I stepped back to -BETA3 to test things before 10 goes out. I had a few problems. The most pressing being that the bootcode on the disc does not work on my laptop. The installation completed, I rebooted and the system tried to PXE boot. I then booted into the live CD and manually added the -b and -p bootcode, with the same result on the following boot. However, doing this process using a 9.1-RELEASE cd did get the system booting normally. The laptop is an HP Elitebook 2570p. Prior to this installation I was running -CURRENT and using a normal installworld/installkernel procedure. Secondly, I wanted to set up my disc with a 30GB UFS2 / and a 70GB ZFS /home. I used the 'graphical' partition editor rather than the shell, perhaps a mistake, and it didn't work. That is to say, I'd expect it to set up ZFS filesystems on the partitions I'd added with freebsd-zfs type. In the end I just installed the system with / and migrated /home to ZFS later. Finally, I enabled ZFS and created my /home pool. ARC took up most of my free memory (I have 16GB). Later, I was building some ports when I actually ran out of memory. I had no swap configured at that time, so the processes were killed. I set a limit on the ARC size to 2GB and everything is working again. Surely this should be happening on a default ZFS install though? I guess I'm just a magnet for issues! --sym
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