From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 5 07:54:57 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 41B241065758 for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 07:54:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@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 9F8998FC1A for ; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 07:54:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so770220bwz.13 for ; Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:54:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:received :reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=6EhFLbR2ZIAxplYyJTpQOaDZxKcpZ9VhofHMKQ7jAWQ=; b=RQoZMqWshbYeJZalGjgACGkF0OHhxCr3DftSTPjYLkd+khfHxU0pSTn7v0n2gYElXN k7iexRBcwJ1eQ7cooyCpOMd/U83pbXht8sYE9WBP8l+/tngZscB/gsZGihGEs2yJLwUt 7LyoXur2ZNeLT6vEg6Oqoch+uU++cErFDVTmY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=XSxJ3v0PslhKmKXuZSX32CW9lzICf+2ZOYgLnvlHXKdhp//Dm/QX8KDPMl1/nRc3HM vprNAu0OgY4my+DfJiWOqLpEJFkgaWhfD/v6VCBPPigwKREXHrzicr71pr3N7L5gynNL yq66S62SiY2oMo2Fz/Ub08fh9e60j7x+SktoE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.46.223 with SMTP id k31mr4720117bkf.148.1275724495312; Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.54.211 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 00:54:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.54.211 with HTTP; Sat, 5 Jun 2010 00:54:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <9E15A9F3-F67E-4ECC-B1EC-99F65764F831@hughes.net> Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 08:54:55 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: Chris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Questions Subject: Re: Booting Xserve on 8.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2010 07:54:57 -0000 Perhaps you need to install Boot Camp. The booting procedure is EFI, maybe that's playing havoc. On 5 Jun 2010 03:37, "Chris" wrote: I have two new Xserves (last years units, 2.8 quad cores). After fighting with OSX for two months, I decided to see if I could install FreeBSD since that is what we have always run on our 10 servers since the 90s (and those two months would have been over in two days had we had FreeBSD from the start). I decided to give it a try tonight after a particularly low ebb in the frustration over trying to make OSX, NOT do user friendly enterprise things, but just configure normal simple applications that we take for granted can be configured and stay configured on FreeBSD. I'm wondering if there is someone on the list who may have information on this. I used the "boot from CD" procedure that apple provides at http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2778?viewlocale=en_US and it will not boot the 8.0 ISO. I configured one normal intel box using this CD so I think it's a good disk, and I verified that the Xserve would read it as a data disk. But I can't get it to boot on the xserve. Bootloader issue? It pops the disk out and puts the gray folder with a question mark to tell me to give it a disk it can read. I tried the i386 8.0 CD and had the same results. I have read where people are installing the PPC version on xserves. Is it possible the amd64 version is not somehow bootable in a modern xserve? Any ideas? Would it be appropriate to ask this on the amd64 list? _______________________________________________ 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"