On 23 April 2016 at 16:05, Mike <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > 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.).
The machine in question (the one of two that's on at the moment) is a 64-bit machine with an x86_64 kernel: VirtualBox is a Debian package available through the OS, so I assume it's 64-bit. I don't think this is a guest OS kernel problem: after seeing the error message while attempting to boot the ISO as a guest I'm dumped to the GRUB prompt, so we never actually get to the kernel. This would seem to be a GRUB issue? -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
