From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 20:28:19 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62CCF1065675 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:28:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from faust64@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C048FC28 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:28:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz12 with SMTP id 12so3434615bwz.13 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:28:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=6/193kSMwn6oHogzzoO8ywV/E7AuRKQpo3m8lPLClL8=; b=BT2n96DU4qD5LDT+mVThqoZV/wcwz889TT34KPx4do6eHxpUE4OsanLoq3HjWLDN8a 7Dfdp5Ghj0F8dC1aZD9KDpWFa5whISxc5AQoqbyArgqVUxMfymedwSj/jZf2uoSKgb8F t1tXKlwh/FMlH3vV3mrh5VHmSLzWI38SHHAzc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=cvRiWcGfRB9IBLj6mD2h1F8u/KMrYf0EkaiikTERJaasc+0lN3MlKahPO7jdhVQvtU LT+9nrkJJtG29TnUrpDfJcXrUAKWdBchYpsfqQTa/ywB9tGn3VMyoxV6I8KC4ejroLEe lEJpt6ds8zkJ1hHhU/fHsMY5i7pKomd1woM2Q= Received: by 10.204.131.132 with SMTP id x4mr6155138bks.50.1280176097256; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:28:17 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.120.197 with HTTP; Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:27:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Samuel_Mart=EDn_Moro?= Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:27:45 +0200 Message-ID: To: Michael Powell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.1-RELEASE ia64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:28:19 -0000 Oh right.. ok... sorry... I'll try amd64 Thanks for the heads up! Samuel Mart=EDn Moro {EPITECH.} tek4 CamTrace S.A.S (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 1 All=E9e de la Venelle 92150 Suresnes FRANCE "Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ..." Xorg.conf(5) On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Michael Powell wro= te: > Samuel Mart=EDn Moro wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I would like to install FreeBSD-8.1 ia64, so I downloaded > > FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso. > > > > When I boot from a burnt CD, the screen keeps black, with the > > blinkingunderscore, > > nothing else happend. > > When I make an USB bootable stick, I've got a message saying that > > /boot/loader was not found. > > > > Having a look into /boot, I noticed that indeed, there's no loader > > anymore. But there a loader.efi, which wasn't in FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE (t= he > > last I tried). > > I tried copying loader.efi to loader, but as expected, it says me > 'invalid > > format' and still does not want to boot... > > Perfectly normal and to be expected. IA64 utilizes a different boot loade= r > paradigm known as EFI. More info on EFI can be found here: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface > > > What happened to loader? > > Did I download the wrong iso? > > Probably. The IA64 architecture is a completely different beast than x86. > If > your processor is a Xeon or some other regular Intel desktop type you nee= d > to use the amd64 iso image. > > > Did I miss something? > > > > Also, why other archs have their -memstick.img, and ia64 have not? > > > Maybe IA64 will not boot from USB because of the EFI boot loader > requirement. > > -Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >