Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:50:39 +0100 (CET) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Claus=20Guttesen?= <cguttesen@yahoo.dk> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation on hp rx2600 Message-ID: <20031215185039.96276.qmail@web14107.mail.yahoo.com>
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>> Would a workaround be to install either 5.0 or 5.1
and
>> then cvsup to 5.2?
> You can try it, but I would not try versions older
> than 5.1. Note however that nothing in that area has
> been changed deliberately.
I grabbed the 5.1 ISO and was able to use the
ATA-CD-drive during installation. Partitioning
(slicing) and creating mount-points went fine, but I'm
unable to boot.
So I started the installer again. Eventhough I had
made one big FreeBSD-slice (and a smaller EFI-ditto) I
may have done something incorrectly. The fdisk editor
(at the 2'nd install) sees this:
Offset Size(ST) End Name PType Desc Subtype Flags
0 34 33 - 12 unused 0
34 204767 204800 da0p1 6 efi 0
204801 1048576 1253376 da0p2a 10 part 7
1253377 16777216 18030592 da0p2d 10 part 7
18030593 16777216 34807808 da0p2e 10 part 7
34807809 16777216 51585024 da0p2b 10 part 1
51585025 19534730 71119754 da0p2f 10 part 7
71119755 13205 71132959 - 12 unused 0
The five mount-points suddenly appears like
partitions.
I found the thread
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ia64/2003-October/000219.html
where you state that
"Our kernel and modules are installed in the EFI
partition. Since you didn't create partitions with
sysinstall (they were inherited), you're missing the
efi mount point and the link /boot -> /efi/boot."
So I deleted the EFI-slice (I inherited) and recreated
it using type 0xFE, created a FreeBSD-slice for the
remaining space, and created the five mount-points
(which - for some reason - become type 7 and 1 after
reboot).
The only way I can delete these slices are by changing
the type to 165 (FreeBSD-type) and then perform the
deletion.
Reading the thread tells me that I need an
EFI-partition as type DOS. Do I have to format it
before I attempt the FreeBSD-install, and how would I
do that?
I must be missing something important, either before
or during the installation, but I seem to go in
circles.
regards
Claus
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