3.8 release plans

[karu.pruun]

On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Sascha Wildner <saw at online.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2014 10:00:15 +0200, karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 3:38 PM, Sascha Wildner wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, 27 May 2014 05:19:03 +0200, karu.pruun wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Something I noticed at 3.8.0RC: at boot, the kernel complains that it
>>>> cannot find
>>>>
>>>> /boot/kernel/acpi
>>>> /boot/kernel/ehci
>>>>
>>>> and they are not loaded.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On which box is this? Is it an upgraded system. If not, which ISO/IMG was
>>> used? Any idea when it started?
>>
>>
>>
>> I have not seen it with 3.6.x on Virtualbox. I did a fresh install
>> with dfly-x86_64-3.8.0RC.iso.bz2 on Virtualbox this morning, uname -a
>>
>> DragonFly dflybox 3.8-RELEASE DragonFly v3.8.0rc-RELEASE #12: Sun May
>> 25 23:15:08 PDT 2014
>>
>> root at pkgbox64.dragonflybsd.org:/usr/obj/build/home/justin/src/sys/X86_64_GENERIC
>>  x86_64
>>
>> and noticed the message when booting the installed system from hdd
>> (the install cd loaded both modules fine). After the kernel loads from
>> hdd, it says:
>>
>> --
>> Unable to load /boot/kernel/acpi
>> Unable to load /boot/kernel/ehci
>> ACPI autoload failed - inappropriate file type or format
>> EHCI autoload failed - inappropriate file type or format
>
>
> It must be a new issue specific to VirtualBox. I just tried
>
> http://avalon.dragonflybsd.org/iso-images/dfly-x86_64-3.8.0RC.iso.bz2
>
> in Microsoft's Hyper-V and it _does_ load the acpi and ehci modules when
> booting from the ISO itself and also when booting a system which was
> installed from this ISO.
>
> I also now remember a guy in the #dragonflybsd IRC channel who had the same
> issue (also on VirtualBox) some weeks ago. I'll look a bit further tonight
> if I can find something.


Thanks for this.

Peeter

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