Sysinstall does not install GENERIC kernel

[Belov, Sergey]

Yes, 'kernels'  still doesn't work. I have January2007 ISO images, maybe
later it was fixed. I don't know.

And one more thing. Is there anyone who can explain why these commands
are failed?
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris at obsecurity.org] 
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 7:51 PM
To: Kris Kennaway; Belov, Sergey; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org;
roudoud0u at free.fr
Subject: Re: Sysinstall does not install GENERIC kernel

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 04:39:08AM -0500, Josh Paetzel wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:23:38AM +0400, Belov, Sergey wrote:
> > > 
> > > > hit the same bug too with FreeBSD-6.1. To workaround this, i've 
> > > > just added the distribution set "GENERIC" to dists (this value 
> > > > wasn't mentionned on the sysinstall manpage by the way :-( ) So 
> > > > try with this:
> > > > dists=base GENERIC catpages info manpages proflibs kernel 
> > > > distSetCustom
> > > 
> > > Thank you. I've also found interesting thread here:
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-June/123
> > > 640.ht
> > > ml
> > > 
> > > It seems that automatic installation mechanism is far from perfect

> > > and there's nobody who interested in fixing the problems.
> > 
> > Are you sure it was not fixed in 6.2?
> > 
> > Kris
> 
> distSetCustom has been broken ever since the goo was added to make 
> sysinstall smart enough to install either GENERIC or SMP depending on 
> how many processors are in the machine.  After that change was made 
> the kernels target to distSetCustom stopped working.  My workaround 
> has been to hack the distSetMinimal target in sysinstall to put in 
> what I want.  I guess I should've submitted a PR at some point...

Yes.

Kris