Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 00:15:33 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: "James R. Van Artsalen" <james@jrv.org> Cc: freebsd-ia64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD/ia64 on HP zx6000? Message-ID: <20040325081533.GA87339@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <40628E5C.40200@jrv.org> References: <40628E5C.40200@jrv.org>
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On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 01:46:36AM -0600, James R. Van Artsalen wrote: > Is there a step-by-step instruction list on getting FreeBSD/ia64 > installed on an HP zx6000? Not that I know of. > 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. The CDROM drive is not detected because 5.2.1 doesn't have the ACPI update that happened in December. The update fixed bus enumeration that was broken for a while (since 5.1 I think). The snapshot here: ftp://ftp2.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/ia64/ does probe the ATA controller. > Most install attempts failed with "device full" errors. Can you give a description of what you did? > 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? Add /boot/loader.efi to the boot menu. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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