Hello, I have put 4 new CD images for testing on ums.usu.ru:
http://ums.usu.ru/~patrakov/test/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2014.iso http://ums.usu.ru/~patrakov/test/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2014-nosrc.iso http://ums.usu.ru/~patrakov/test/lfslivecd-x86_64-6.3-r2014.iso http://ums.usu.ru/~patrakov/test/lfslivecd-x86_64-6.3-r2014-nosrc.iso The x86 versions, as before, contain both 32-bit (linux) and 64-bit (linux64) kernels and 32-bit userspace. The x86_64 version contains 64-bit kernel and 64-bit userspace, and should be used with CLFS or this book: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/lfs-x86_64/ Since LFS is close to its 6.3 release, these CD versions should give you a close approximation of what will become the 6.3 LiveCD release, if any. I say "if any" because of bugs and untested updates that I don't want to go into a "stable" release. The worst possibly-existing non-documentation bug is http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/ticket/1736, but if you have information about other bugs, please share it too. Owners of motherboards with Intel IDE and/or SATA controllers can help by downloading and testing the CD, and answering the following questions: 1) How (i.e., with IDE or SATA) are your CD-ROMs and hard disks connected? 2) Does your motherboard use Intel or third-party (e.g., Marvel) chipset for the CD-ROM and hard disk connection? Please provide the output of "lspci" if in doubt. If there is something like "Native/AHCI" chioce in the BIOS, please test both options. 3) Does the LFS LiveCD detect the CD drive and the hard disk without special boot arguments? What are the device nodes created for them? What are the device nodes created for them in other distributions and/or your self-compiled kernels (please name the distribution and its version)? 4) Do "IDE port busy" or "failed to request/iomap BARs" errors like those in http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/7/20/171 appear in the "dmesg" command output? Does "hdparm -tT" display reasonable speed for your hard drives? 5) Does the CD boot if you type "linux pata" at the boot loader screen instead of just pressing Enter? Any errors in dmesg? What are the device nodes? If at least one of "Intel IDE only", "mixed Intel IDE/SATA", "Intel SATA plus third party IDE" and "Intel SATA only" case doesn't get covered by your replies, there will be no LFS-6.3 LiveCD. To get this task easier for you, here are my answers: 1) Both the CD-ROM and the hard disk are connected to SATA ports. 2) SATA controller is by Intel (both "Legacy", "Native" and "AHCI" options work fine), IDE is by Marvel (but there is nothing connected to the IDE port, so can't test). 3) Yes, /dev/sda is the hard drive, /dev/scd0 is the CD-ROM in both cases, the hard disk speed is around 80 MB/s, the same applies to Debian Lenny. 4) No such messages, probably because they are supposed to appear only in the "mixed Intel IDE/SATA" case. 5) Yes, it works exactly the same as without the "pata" option. Another task for testers: open http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/browser/trunk/packages, and test each package if you can. Send reports what works (even if you don't find any bugs - simply for me to see what users test and what they don't) and what doesn't. Untested packages are likely to be removed in the future. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
