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. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com
When it comes to md5's , and maybe this will not work because of rarity, but if you take your calc'd md5 and google it, you would hope it would hit, if it doesn't then maybe it is corrupt? can do another down load to know for sure. and your right, no google hit, which means its likely a very particular issue to just you :) I was interested in trying this some time to, looking forward to hearing your results and impressions of it. -tl 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.
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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.).
On 23 April 2016 at 16:05, Mike <el.fontanero@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
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/ gilesorr@gmail.com
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