<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 3:48 PM, Giles Orr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gilesorr@gmail.com" target="_blank">gilesorr@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just downloaded UbuntuBSD from<br>
<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntubsd/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://sourceforge.net/projects/ubuntubsd/</a> . I really like the idea:<br>
ZFS and no systemd. But attempting to install it in VirtualBox, I got<br>
"error: failed in building a Huffman code table" (a line that stumped<br>
Google!) and got dropped to the 'grub>' prompt (where I admit to being<br>
a bit lost). This happened on two different machines, one Debian, the<br>
other Ubuntu, and I'm fairly sure they're amd64 systems (needed since<br>
the ISO is x64). An md5 file to verify the download would be a plus,<br>
but I haven't found one.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><br></blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hi Giles,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">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.).<br></div></div>