On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Giles Orr <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just downloaded UbuntuBSD from > https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntubsd/ . I really like the idea: > ZFS and no systemd. But attempting to install it in VirtualBox, I got > "error: failed in building a Huffman code table" (a line that stumped > Google!) and got dropped to the 'grub>' prompt (where I admit to being > a bit lost). This happened on two different machines, one Debian, the > other Ubuntu, and I'm fairly sure they're amd64 systems (needed since > the ISO is x64). An md5 file to verify the download would be a plus, > but I haven't found one. > > Hi Giles, gzip and bzip2 use Huffman coding (frequent symbols are coded with smaller representations). It seems like the kernel is having trouble starting, or even initializing its gzip/bzip2, to decompresses itself... Check that your virtualization environment is simulating the type of machine the install image is expecting (CPU architecture, hopefully not too exotic bus hardware etc.).
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