Kernel not installed from CD

[Erwin Lansing]

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 at diomedia.be for the suggestion.

-erwin

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