From owner-freebsd-ia64 Sat Oct 6 2: 0:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4677D37B412 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 02:00:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f9690bM63140 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 02:00:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D859D380A; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 02:00:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Doug Rabson Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Woohoo! In-Reply-To: <20011006094300.B530-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 02:00:37 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20011006090037.D859D380A@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Rabson wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > > > Doug Rabson wrote: > > > Single-user mode on real hardware. The root filesystem is mounted over > > > NFS. I think I'll go and buy a bottle of wine now :-) > > > > Holy shit!! Wow! :-) If this is over NFS then that means interrupts are > > working, right? That means we should be able to do the EFI disk partitioni ng > > in order to boot off disk.. > > I don't think it will take much for this. I'm going to try playing games > with fdisk and disklabel today. I cheated and dd'ed the md0 image to a second disk, and booted from ufs:da1c and it worked perfectly. Redhat installed a perfectly normal and understandable fdisk partition on this system. This looks promising. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message