From owner-freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 24 14:23:21 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7382710656FF for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:23:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4485B8FC23 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:23:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EAB2846B03; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:23:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.hudson-trading.com (unknown [209.249.190.8]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C9F708A079; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:23:19 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:28:29 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20090623160004.GB8702@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090623160004.GB8702@mech-cluster238.men.bris.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906240828.29922.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:23:19 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Subject: Re: SUCCESS! was: Re: installing from CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the IA-64 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:23:22 -0000 On Tuesday 23 June 2009 12:00:04 pm Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 08:54:33AM -0600, ToyoRunner wrote: > > If you get your box up, try logging into it with ssh. I was running > > 6-STABLE and for some reason I too could not get the serial console to > > display the login prompt. However, ssh login worked fine for me. > > success!! > > Many thanks to all list participants! > > I got into the newly installed system via ssh. > > # uname -srm > FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT-200906 ia64 > # > > > # df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0p2 496M 35M 421M 8% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/da0p1 256M 156M 100M 61% /efi > /dev/da0p5 496M 12K 456M 0% /tmp > /dev/da0p6 11G 236M 10G 2% /usr > /dev/da0p4 1.9G 228K 1.8G 0% /var > # > > Note the EFI files take up 156 MB, whereas the EFI partition created > by default by the installation program was only 100 MB. This is > probably a reason for having loader.efi of zero size. > So, it seems, the installation program needs to be updated to reflect this. Looks like this might address that: Index: usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c =================================================================== --- usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c (revision 194698) +++ usr.sbin/sysinstall/label.c (working copy) @@ -1389,7 +1389,7 @@ #ifdef __ia64__ AutoEfi = NULL; if (EfiChunk == NULL) { - sz = 100 * ONE_MEG; + sz = 200 * ONE_MEG; AutoEfi = Create_Chunk_DWIM(label_chunk_info[here].c->disk, label_chunk_info[here].c, sz, efi, 0, 0); if (AutoEfi == NULL) { Marcel, do you think this change is ok to bump the EFI part up to 200MB for 8.0? -- John Baldwin