From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 22 14:10:29 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A7B16A415 for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:10:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: from mail.droso.net (koala.droso.net [193.88.12.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CE343D8F for ; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:10:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from erwin@mail.droso.net) Received: by mail.droso.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1317C1CD29; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:10:23 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 16:10:23 +0200 From: Erwin Lansing To: stable@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20061022141022.GB80328@droso.net> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.org References: <20061022112716.GV80328@droso.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yPSgZSQ6mfPWgZ9n" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061022112716.GV80328@droso.net> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 6.2-PRERELEASE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: Subject: Re: Kernel not installed from CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:10:29 -0000 --yPSgZSQ6mfPWgZ9n Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:27:16PM +0200, 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 :-) >=20 This seems to be related to choosing a distribution in sysintall (developer, X-developer, User, ...) Without choosing one, no kernel is installed. I guess implicitly installing the smallest distribution when no distribution is chosen from the menu would solve this problem. Thanks to bram@diomedia.be for the suggestion. -erwin --=20 Erwin Lansing http://droso.org Security is like an onion. (o_ _o) It's made up of several layers \\\_\ /_/// erwin@FreeBSD.org And it makes you cry. <____) (____> erwin@aauug.dk --yPSgZSQ6mfPWgZ9n Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFO3vOqy9aWxUlaZARArUnAJ4o6yASs1OavC9VkhBkSj3xB1CIMwCgoG4J wpONhegEj9WFsdmkUTJ4YDY= =l1IU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yPSgZSQ6mfPWgZ9n--