From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 22 12:23:08 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 7C1A516A412; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:23:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1225543D5D; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 12:23:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 982D746C13; Sun, 22 Oct 2006 08:23:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:23:07 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Erwin Lansing In-Reply-To: <20061022112716.GV80328@droso.net> Message-ID: <20061022132116.V60062@fledge.watson.org> References: <20061022112716.GV80328@droso.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org 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 12:23:08 -0000 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