On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 11:37:28PM -0700, Soren Jacobsen wrote: > As you may have noticed, the NetBSD 7.0 release process is underway. A > lot of great work has gone into NetBSD since 6.0, and we're very excited > about this upcoming release. > > The state of the branch is generally good at this point, but we need [...]
'Generally good' is probably fair and true statement - but as long as You don't try 'extended partitioning' on GPT disk. I have had single, dedicated partition for - test - NetBSD7 installation. After selecting 'extended partitioning', 'edit partition' and enabling 'newfs', 'mount as /' I ended with disk in FUBAR state: after some errors during process thats looks like partition and wedges re-creation (WTF?) my partitions was renumbered like this: # initial state start size index contents [...] 234960896 2000896 5 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 236961792 2000896 6 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 238962688 7999488 7 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 246962176 7999488 8 GPT part - NetBSD swap 254961664 118085632 9 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 # final state start size index contents [...] 234960896 2000896 6 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 236961792 2000896 7 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 238962688 7999488 8 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 246962176 7999488 9 GPT part - NetBSD swap 254961664 118085632 10 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2 ...wedges was messed-up even more and - as expected consequence - my separated boot partition lost their identity. Yes, I know - running _BETA may lead to similar consequences, but at this moment I found term 'generally good' as little exaggerated (at least when extending paritioning comes to play). PS. I tested NetBSD-7_BETA/amd64 ISO from 201410230710Z snapshot. -- Piotr 'aniou' Meyer