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From: perryh@pluto.rain.com (Perry Hutchison)
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Subject: failed to install kernel
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There seems to be a recurrent problem, at least in 6.1, of sysinstall
not installing the kernel:

  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-May/122261.html
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-June/124096.html
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-August/129613.html
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-August/129632.html
  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-August/129659.html

Has there been any thought of adding some basic sanity checks to
sysinstall, and at least prompting for confirmation in cases like

* About to newfs the root partition, but the selections to be
  installed do not include the kernel.

* A partition is not large enough to contain everything which the
  current selections will try to install on it.