Re: installing with root on ZFS (was: So, who's in charge of Kfreebsd? The installer is broken)

2012-07-26 Thread Dave Bechtel
Hi Steven, thanks for the reply. What CD/DVD image are you using to install kfreebsd? Using the July 12 netinstall mini.iso, I can't get a working/booting install with Expert mode and Testing(wheezy) or even Stable - even by going with the defaults (UFS all the way, default partitioning.) It

Re: installing with root on ZFS (was: So, who's in charge of Kfreebsd? The installer is broken)

2012-07-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 26/07/12 22:08, Dave Bechtel wrote: > Error messages on alt+f4 indicate that /proc can't be mounted in target, but > it's not really verbose. I can go thru each and every install step if it > will help. Ahhh I think that's a problem I have seen. After you get the error, try this in the Alt-

Re: installing with root on ZFS (was: So, who's in charge of Kfreebsd? The installer is broken)

2012-07-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
> On 26/07/12 22:08, Dave Bechtel wrote: >> Error messages on alt+f4 indicate that /proc can't be mounted in target, but >> it's not really verbose. I can go thru each and every install step if it >> will help. Actually it may not even be specific to GNU/kFreeBSD; some people have seen the sam

Re: installing with root on ZFS (was: So, who's in charge of Kfreebsd? The installer is broken)

2012-07-26 Thread Dave Bechtel
Redid install steps as follows (TL;DR Spoiler: Finally got to a login prompt with Super Grub disk!) + increased vm RAM from 548 to 720 MB vHD: 12 GB SCSI @ 0,0,0 / da0 ( vdisk: Single file, Growable, no 2GB split ) --- Reproducable Install steps: o Language/Locales: + add EN-US and EN-US-ISO-

Re: installing with root on ZFS (was: So, who's in charge of Kfreebsd? The installer is broken)

2012-07-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi Dave, [I see you got this installed now, but since I already wrote all this I'll send it anyway for future reference/whatever] On 26/07/12 22:08, Dave Bechtel wrote: > What CD/DVD image are you using to install kfreebsd? An installer image that I've successfully used a few times is the alpha

Re: Bug#613430: debian-installer will not install grub bootloader on kfreebsd-amd64 system w/ a ZFS partition

2012-07-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
user debian-bsd@lists.debian.org usertags 613430 kfreebsd thanks On 26/07/12 23:09, Dave Bechtel wrote: > grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/da0' > grub-installer: info: Mounting /proc into /target > main-menu[107]: (process:32067): mount: mounting proc on /target/proc failed: > No su

Re: installing with root on ZFS (was: So, who's in charge of Kfreebsd? The installer is broken)

2012-07-26 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 26/07/12 23:09, Dave Bechtel wrote: > Reproducable Install steps: Thanks; that kind of detailed feedback is really helpful in getting things fixed. > --Rebooting the VM at this point causes 100% vmware CPU usage, and nothing > usable in the VM - just a blank screen. Not sure what went wron