On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Giles Orr <gilesorr@gmail.com> 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.).