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Thu, 11 Dec 2008

1:04 PM - New Mirror

We have a new mirror for MidnightBSD.  Currently, the mirror is rsyncing so not all files are up yet.  We've posted it on the download page, in mports sites.mk (so it's a backup for files), and in the metalink file for 0.2.1-release.

Special thanks to Secution 

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1:06 PM - src work update

I've been running CURRENT on my desktop for a few days.  So far, the results are promising.  There are many things to do.  I've had luck on amd64, but i386 is still broken. (progress is being made)  I have not tested sparc64 due to the length of time required to build it.  I will begin testing it after we get intel based stuff working properly.  

You can follow the progress on http://tinderbox.midnightbsd.org/  That process does a more exhaustive LINT kernel test which is not going well on all three architectures.  GENERIC is working on amd64.   

I built a live cd from the amd64 build on my desktop and tested it on two intel macs.  The first was an iMac (early 2008) which booted, and dhclient was started manually with success.  I was able to ssh to other systems, etc.  The wireless card is not supported (broadcom), but the msk(4) works fine.  The SATA and IDE controllers were detected properly, but I have not yet done a hard drive install to verify it's working well.  The second system was a Mac Pro (2 Ghz, 5GB ram, Pioneer SATA optical drive).  This system did not boot completely.  The video worked unlike 0.2.1 release including display on both LCDs (dual head)  It froze around GPT_LABEL i think.  I suspect it's having trouble with the sata optical drive.  The SMP kernel seemed ok as all the cores "launched".  

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