Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 01:46:36 -0600 From: "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org> To: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Install FreeBSD/ia64 on HP zx6000? Message-ID: <40628E5C.40200@jrv.org>
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Is there a step-by-step instruction list on getting FreeBSD/ia64 installed on an HP zx6000? I burned a 5.2.1 miniinst ISO date 2/25 and managed to coax EFI into booting it. The CDROM drive is not detected by the kernel, FTP over proxy gets a SIGSEGV, so I used NFS. Most install attempts failed with "device full" errors. I finally manually used an 8 GB /, a 5 GB swap and the rest as /usr (theory is somehow /usr is never being mounted: /etc/fstab error?). There is an EFI partition, probably pre-existing, and I left it alone. This time no errors during install. Now what? EFI seems generally clueless about booting so I assume I have to manually boot the kernel. What do I do to get EFI to load FreeBSD? The disk is a 36GB disk that probably had Windows on it before. There may still be Microsoft contaminants in the EFI partition for all I know.
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