Comments on: Welcome to FreeBSD 8!

By: Remko

Remko — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:39:00 +0000

Sure, but there is one problem. Linking to a printed glossy magazine is still a bit difficult. Ofcourse I have the PDF but I am not sure whether I am allowed to place that online.

Thanks,
Remko

By: mehrshad moslehi vigol

mehrshad moslehi vigol — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:50:00 +0000

Excellent.
I think It’s better to make a link to your previous article too.
Thanks

By: bsdplus

bsdplus — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:21:00 +0000

would like to see how Dtrace work out in FB8

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By: Welcome to FreeBSD 8! | FreeBSD - the unknown Giant

Welcome to FreeBSD 8! | FreeBSD - the unknown Giant — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:15:00 +0000

[...] In this article I will write about the latest release from FreeBSD, 8.0. This is a major version that offers new functionality and much improved parts of the code. [...]

By: Remko

Remko — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 13:09:00 +0000

I came across something like you mention Jeff:

http://www.evilcoder.org was upgraded to releng_8 a few days ago, and the machine hosting it, stopped working. With a remote console I could at least see the prompt: it mentions that my gmirror partitions where unavailable and that I could boot of ‘ad4a and ‘ad6a’, I would have expected ‘ad4s1a and ad6s1a’ because I partioned the disk as hinted.

After talking with Pawel (pjd) Dawidek he hinted me to load GEOM_BSD, GEOM_MBR in the kernel, after which my system booted again.

As long as I mention these things in my kernel config my system is fine, if these options are removed, I am screwed

Thanks for commenting Jeff! (and the rest as well ofcourse, I’ll try to add a freebsd-update section soon[tm])

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:53:00 +0000

One, maybe two, instances of “not enough /dev entries per disk”
in v8 vs v7 (maybe) fixed by:
…….
Esc to loader prompt
load /boot/kernel/geom_bsd.ko
load /boot/kernel/geom_label.ko
load /boot/kernel/geom_mbr.ko
boot
…….
at least *here* and one other machine (a forum thread). If I had
known about how to do the above, I might have been able to
install a v8 aug 2009 snapshot to a sata-on-pci (from a live cd).
I’ve added those to /boot/loader.conf
Barring it is unique to this machine, maybe someone could fix
it by v9 so fewer problems for installs/upgrades…
……..
Hopefully someone will know more and post about it.

By: 升級到 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE « 藍天浮雲

升級到 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE « 藍天浮雲 — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:10:00 +0000

[...] Welcome to FreeBSD 8! [...]

By: Sten Spans

Sten Spans — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:30:00 +0000

Great article, the list of new features really clarifies things. However you fail to mention the easiest way to upgrade, freebsd-upgrade. This command makes the upgrade from 7.2 fast and painless.

By: Wu

Wu — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:16:00 +0000

Nice review, thnx for the detailed information about the new features. I really **really** wanted the new USB code, as I had a lot of problems in the past with USB harddrives.

Right now I’m upgrading 2 servers from 8.0-PRERELEASE, to 8.0-STABLE and next I’ll have to upgrade some more boxes from 6-STABLE and 7-STABLE too.