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 :-) -erwin -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20061022/13f02975/attachment.pgp
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
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 :-) >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 -- 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20061022/3a0f5ceb/attachment.pgp