Subject: Success (or failure) reports for 4.0_BETA2 on i386/amd64: where to
To: None <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Stefek Zaba <s-netbsdusers-mar07@zaba.com>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/21/2007 16:35:16
Is anybody interested in success/failure/partial-success info (dmesg, 
hardware-not-detected, etc.) from trial installs of 4.0_BETA2 on 
various-vintage i386/amd64 boxen? If so, which email address would want 
them?

Apologies for not finding this info in the list archives - the early 
December netbsd-announce post mentions using send-pr for brokenness, but 
doesn't solicit "it's all good" or "or it's all good barring such-n-such 
niggle".

(I've had an essentially successful install on a shuttle-style box with 
a compact ?Asus? mobo, and a near-success which became a disastrous 
cockup on a T40 Thinkpad - pilot error there was having a 5-way boot 
with all three BSDs, an Ubuntu, and XP, all on one drive: primary 
partitions for FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and XP, NetBSD3.1 and Linux in the 
extended partition, GRUB bootblock with /boot/grub in the FreeBSD root 
slice in its primary partition. All ran fine, then when I ran the 
4.0_BETA2 installer in Upgrade mode, some combination of me being asleep 
at the wheel (90-100% of blame) and NetBSD's residual affection for 
partition-type 165 as well as its own, native, 169 (0-10% of blame), led 
the 4.0_B2 updating process to scribble most cruelly into the FreeBSD 
partition.)

Clues relating to where to send detailed dmesg etc. would be welcome - 
in pithy, firmly-phrased but socially-acceptable form to the list, and 
in full remedial-reading-advice-rant-mode by direct email...

Cheerski, Stefek