[PC-BSD Testing] PC-BSD snapshot with Xorg 7.5.2

[Arthur Koziol]

On 02/28/2012 12:23 PM, Kris Moore wrote:
> On 02/28/2012 13:16, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Kris Moore <kris at pcbsd.org 
>> <mailto:kris at pcbsd.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 02/27/2012 13:57, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote:
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > My opinion is that "Stamping boot0 on /dev/ada0 ..."
>>     > is NOT working .
>>     >
>>     > I think , after writing that part , a check by reading it to verify
>>     > correctness of writing
>>     > ( if it is possible ) may be useful , because , nearly , all of the
>>     > boot failures are result of
>>     > failure of this step .
>>     >
>>
>>     >
>>
>>     The installer does check the exit status of these stamp commands to
>>     ensure they finish properly.
>>
>>     We can easily test if boot0 is the problem though. If you do the
>>     install
>>     again, go to disk setup -> advanced and use the full disk, try
>>     checking
>>     "GPT" mode this time. It wont do the boot0 install, but instead
>>     will do
>>     a pmbr setup which may work better on your system.
>>
>>
>>     --
>>     Kris Moore
>>     PC-BSD Software
>>     iXsystems
>>
>>
>>
>> Exit status always may not show correct value . For that reason , 
>> copy operations , CD/DVD burning programs are VERIFYING written data 
>> by re-reading it . My suggestion was such a re-read to verify whether 
>> written values are correctly written or not .
>>
>>
>> The installation performed with respect to the above steps : 
>> "Partition disk with GPT" has been checked .
>>
>>
> Ok, that helps us determine that it works fine when you use GPT 
> booting. I don't think it has anything to do with writing boot to 
> disk, if you are having write failures to the boot sector, then you 
> have bigger problems hardware-wise. Sounds like its something to do 
> with the MBR layout instead.
>
>> ......................
>>
>
> Remember, this is an experimental Intel patch, you may want to report 
> this issue over to the freebsd-x11 list now. Sounds like the failure 
> is occurring that when X shuts down it hangs the box. 

Mehmet,

Sorry, I meant the Parted Magic 12_2_27 ISO.

Arthur



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