Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:56:54 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Alan Robinson <alan.robinson@fujitsu-siemens.com> Cc: freebsd-ia64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hp rx2600 installation V2 (HP zx6000 OK) Message-ID: <20030325085654.GB17195@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20030325093000.B25736@fujitsu-siemens.com> References: <20030313123858.M76795@alfred.skaarup.org> <20030313203934.GA5024@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030318003809.P58444@alfred.skaarup.org> <20030318000349.GB1572@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030318114329.A67206@alfred.skaarup.org> <20030319063201.GA3930@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030324224643.F87725@alfred.skaarup.org> <20030324215714.GA15178@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20030325093000.B25736@fujitsu-siemens.com>
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 09:30:00AM +0100, Alan Robinson wrote: > > > I re-installed a hp zx6000 from the new ftp2.freebsd.org images. The > system booted find except during the install I kept getting errors > about not being able to download / extract all sorts of thing. > These I answered with (N)o retry and eventually got the system > installed. > > I am not sure if the stuff is actually missing or not ! That depends on what the 'all sort of things' actually constitute. > Could some kind sole please explain how this efi partition and > FreeBSD are meant to fit together. The keyword is MBR. Our installer has hardcoded the notion of slicing and partitioning. The quickest solution for us was to create an MBR instead of a GPT, even though we will recognize any existing GPTs. What we definitely need to do for 5.1 is to create a GPT. THis probably involves translating the 2-leveled partitioning into a single level partitioning. I haven't given it much thought other than that we really need a replacement for sysinstall. At this time things are pretty messy when there's already a GPT and EFI partition on the disk. > PS how is the SMP-VHPT stuff getting on or should I disable the 2nd Processor? SMP doesn't work yet. We seem to have a locking problem, that prevents booting either single or multi-user mode. Any VHPT problems we have now are not even an issue :-) The same code works on the BigSur, so I think we have an unfortunate mix of exceptions that probably include a page fault on the HP box we don't have on the BigSur... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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