Bug 99665

Summary:	6.1 ISO/FTP missing /boot/GENERIC or /boot/kernel
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	freebsd
Component:	misc	Assignee:	FreeBSD Release Engineering <re>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	6.1-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description freebsd 2006-07-01 00:40:17 UTC

i've tryed both i386 and amd64, i went and download ISO (compared MD5) seems fine comparing against your website.

i also tryed ISO and installation through FTP, both end up with same message in second debug window (ALT+F2) 

mv: /boot/GENERIC /boot/kernel :No such file or directory

and once I try to reboot server I end up with following:

BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 640kB/3406496kB available memory

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 7 02:16:38 UTC 2006)
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
Unable to load a kernel!
/
can't load 'kernel'

Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
OK

if i type "ls"
i see all my directories
if i type ls /boot/kernel
i get
open '/boot/kernel/' failed:no such file or directory.

Fix: 

n/a
How-To-Repeat: installed few times through FTP, ISO i386 and amd64

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2006-07-01 01:08:40 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->re

Sounds like a re@ issue.

Comment 2 Bruce A. Mah freebsd_committer

2006-10-30 16:40:32 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This is believed to be fixed with the following commit: 

1.245     +1 -1      src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/dist.c 
1.370     +2 -0      src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/install.c 
1.273     +1 -0      src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/sysinstall.h 

It has been merged to the RELENG_6 branch for 6.2-RELEASE. 

As a workaround, make sure that you select a distribution from 
the distributions menu when doing your installation.