Showstopping FreeBSD 6.1 bug

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Mon Aug 21 15:46:18 UTC 2006


Was this on a new install or an upgrade?  I've seen this problem doing a 
binary upgrade, but not with a new install.

         -Derek


At 05:05 PM 8/20/2006, 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.
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