Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:54:48 -0400 From: Ralph Ellis <ralphellis1@netscape.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Showstopping FreeBSD 6.1 bug Message-ID: <200608201954.48500.ralphellis1@netscape.ca> In-Reply-To: <8a0028260608201505k340885b0i420347ac1475718f@mail.gmail.com> References: <8a0028260608201505k340885b0i420347ac1475718f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sunday 20 August 2006 6:05 pm, Jeff Rollin wrote: > Hello all > > I need to report a serious bug in 6.1-RELEASE. On both AMD64 and x86, > sysinstall appears to work correctly but fails to install a kernel on the > target filesystem. This has the additional effect of rendering the > -bootonly .iso almost useless since if the error is not caught before > rebooting, there is no live filesystem to repair the damage, and the > emergency shell cannot find any executables (it can, however, find > executables directly after installing the system). > > Yours > > > > Jeff Rollin. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I recently installed both versions of 6.1 via a boot only iso. Is there a chance that the disk image that you downloaded was damaged or that perhaps there was a problem with the server site that you downloaded from. I have actually had better success installing via the internet than from fully downloaded CDs. Ralph Ellis
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