Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:23:07 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel not installed from CD Message-ID: <20061022132116.V60062@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20061022112716.GV80328@droso.net> References: <20061022112716.GV80328@droso.net>
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Erwin Lansing wrote: > I haven't seen a report on this before, although I heard other people being > hit by the same problem before. Doing a fresh install from a BETA2 cd > forgets to install the kernel and modules to disk. Everything else is > installed just fine, so a simple copy of /dist/kernel/ to the installed disk > easily fixes the problem. A wild guess would be that this has something to > do with the SMP detection, although the first machine was SMP and the second > UP. If this already is reported and fixed, I'll just shut up and get a newer > BETA :-) As a "me too" -- I've seen this happen a few times with previous FreeBSD releases, and I've not managed to trigger it reproduceably. Rather frustrating, actually -- there are just one or two boxes I installed where the first time through the installer, no kernel was installed, but when I re-did the install, it was. I tried to figure out what I had done differently, and wasn't able to track it down. This is something we need to look into -- perhaps something about how we decide what kernel to install, etc? It would be interesting to think about having sysintall produce an install log and install that in /var/db/install on the installed box, so that a log of what had happened during install (i.e., the debug output) was available after the install. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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