Re: freebsd 7 release date :)

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Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Date
20 Aug 2007 02:39:02
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Re: freebsd 7 release date :)
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In the last episode (Aug 19), Erik Norgaard said:
> Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
>> Hello, On 8/19/07, vuthecuong <cuongvt@fpt.vn> wrote:
>>> just for reference only: Original release planned date of 7.0 was
>>> end of Jul. But now is nearly end of Aug. So Which date you guess
>>> 7.0 will be released? :D
>>
>> FreeBSD 7.0 entered frozen status, and it has been very stable with
>> no major bugs, you could use it safely, and enjoy the real BSD speed
>> with FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT now ;)
>
> No so fast now, after reading this I thought I'd give it a try,
> updated the source, buildworld then buildkernel. at installkernel i
> got a lot of error lines like this
>
> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
> kldxref: file isn't dynamically-linked
>
> no idea which file it was. And booting I booted straight into gdb.

(ddb I assume, not gdb?)

Those are warnings, not errors, due to the installkernel running a 6.x
kldxref on a 7.x kernel. Your boot problem is unrelated, and could be
due to missing drivers for whatever your boot device is.

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Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com


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